[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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