[PLUG] Making a Mandrake system usable (installing Debian)
Launi
launi at zaramyth.net
Thu Jun 5 07:36:03 UTC 2003
>-----Original Message-----
>From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org
>[mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Jeme A Brelin
>Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:43 AM
>I have this system here on my desk (at work) that I can't
>really make boot from anything other than the hard disk. It
>has some version of Mandrake installed and poorly configured.
>
>I set up the network interface and inserted the Debian boot
>CD I needed, but I can't seem to find a baseconfig
>executable that'll allow me to just do the installation from
>the CDROM without actually booting the CD.
>
So if you have a SCSI CD on the system I would suggest opening the case and
temporarily putting an IDE CD ROM for the install. The assumption is that
you BIOS can handle booting from CD. If this fails use a floppy to boot
from.
Lonnie
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