FreeDos.org ; Re: [Novalug] Looking for bootable floppy lnux that recognises USB

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Sat Jan 20 09:10:29 EST 2007



> Thanks, Paul. I did some snooping on CentOS, and found a readme that mentioend
> FreeDos.org.  I will give that a try.
>
>   This LUG amazes me.  I get soooo little help on MS Windows user groups...
>

Well, on this list you will get little help on Windows issues as well!!!

All kidding aside, I've had several windows problems solved here as well.

Just post them offtopic (OT), if you post at all.

Jay

>   Jim
>
> "Paul M." <paul@gpmidi.net> wrote:
>   Most Linux distros come with one or more floppy image files in the
> boot directory. Those can be used to boot and then install from the
> CD.
> -Paul
>
> On 1/20/07, James (Jim) Darlack wrote:
>> Thanks, Dan. I dint know it would boot other bootable CDs. LUV the idea.
>>
>> Viruses, virii... be freekin ware.....
>>
>> Dan Arico wrote:
>> On Fri January 19 2007 8:01 pm, James (Jim) Darlack wrote:
>> > Wow.. talk about a learning curve. Reading linux docs, and playing
>> > with live CDs... and in radical absorb mode.
>> >
>> > PROBLEM:
>> > I have an old PC with Windows 98 or 2000 on it. I forget which it
>> > is. It has a virus. The system wont boot from a hard disk.
>> > Therefore, I cant boot CentOS live, etc. I fiddled with the bios, and
>> > it is so old it wont boot from a CD or USB; floppy or hard disk boot
>> > options ONLY.
>>
>> It does have a CD drive, I assume. If so, there's a way around this.
>>
>> Win 95 and Win98 used to come with floppies that would load a CD driver
>> and then turn everything over to the disk in the CD drive. If it's a
>> Knoppix CD in the drive, it boots into Knoppix.
>>
>> If you don't have one of those floppies, you can find and image of one on
>> the installation CD for Win95, Win98, Win2K and most Linux distributions
>> - even a lot of the more recent ones.
>>
>> Dan Arico
>>
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