Anton Mc Kee writes:
> Hi all,
>> Just a quicky. I am trying to install RED HAT 6 onto a laptop with a
> removable floppy/cdrom drivre. I can get it to boot with the floppy
> installed but it then hangs and says " BOOT FAILED" I think it may be
> because it cannot find the cdrom drive (I can't have the two on the
> laptop at the same time) Does anyone have any ideas.
>> I could use dos and copy the cd to the hard drive but the hard drive
> is v. small.
Can't you boot off the cd directly?
The AST laptop I installed RH6.1 onto last week is just the same
(removable floppy and cdrom), and it booted off the cd fine.
That was a cd I burned from the d/l'd .iso image.
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