From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) Subject: Re: Booting Linux Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1992 22:54:33 GMT
bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:
>>I just created a 1.44mb 3.5" HD floppy with the .96 bootimage. I created
>>it by using rawrite.exe to copy the file to a formatted floppy. I then
>>tried to boot the machine from the floppy. The system would not boot,
>>and popped into the BIOS setup program!
I'm sooooo embarrassed ... when I downloaded the files, I copied them
to my ESIX R3 system, which happily cut of the .Z (14 char limit) from
the boot and root files. So I didn't know they were compressed.
Geesh.
Thanks to those who responded.
bill
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