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  • From: "Jim Aitken" <jim AT webvalley.co.uk>
  • To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [BL] HD installtion
  • Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 22:45:04 +0100

Thanks Sheldon and Steven

system now working fine.

Cheers
Jim


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sheldon Isaac" <sisaac AT netaxs.com>
To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [BL] HD installtion


> > I'm trying to install BasicLinux onto a hard drive and having
> > problems. This is what I've done so far...
> >
> > I took a 1gb diskdrive and create a 34mb dos partition and installed
> > dos on it so that it boots up ok. (the dos was created using Win95).
> >
> > Then I loaded up my BasicLinux using my two floppy disks and followed
> > the instructions on the install. I created a native linux partiition
> > and formatted it. I mounted the drives and ran the install. It found
> > my slakware folders from a cd and all appeared well. At the end it
> > referred to a boot.bat file.
> >
> > Should the install create a boot.bat file on my dos partition ? I
> > don't know where to find the boot.bat file.
>
> Jim, the install instructions say what to do, as I recall.
> It's just a DOS command to load BL.
> Put boot.bat where you want it on your DOS drive.
>
> I'll paste mine here:
> REM loadlin zimage kbd-reset root=/dev/ram rw initrd=baslinux.gz
> REM loadlin bzimage vga=ask kbd-reset root=/dev/ram rw initrd=baslinux.gz
> loadlin bzimage vga=ask root=/dev/hdb3 ro
>
> Regards,
>
> Sheldon Isaac
>
>
>
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