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On Friday 25 April 2003 1:13 am, trewornan wrote: > xwindows bz2 image because it's too long. So I need to > install from cd but I can't "get at" the cd drive from To install from CD would normally involve booting from the CD. The BIOS on a 486 may not support this, so on the first CD there should be a README and a selection of .img files that you can copy to a floppy using rawrite (windows) or dd (linux) not 'copy'. That will give you a boot floppy which will then refer to the CD to complete the installation. Installing from CD will ask you to partition the drive rather than use a image file on the existing Windows partition. On a 486, trying to run KDE AND Windows95 is, I'd say, over-ambitious???! X Windows will run a smaller environment if you select it. BTW. You have already changed the windows setup in a way - if you have enough free space on the drive to use an image file for Linux, Linux can help you make that same space a true partition and for no extra space requirement you will improve performance no end. That said, a full Linux installation may average >1Gb with KDE so whichever way you run Linux+Windows on this machine, you'll run out of disc space fairly soon. A second 10Gb drive or even a smart new 40Gb drive would be a worthwhile consideration. > linux. I tried "mount /mnt/cdrom" and got "/mnt/cdrom > not in fstab". I noticed that at bootup hdb was > registered as a cd drive so I also tried /dev/hdb but > this didn't work either. As suggested, use both together - what to mount and where to mount it. Make sure that the directory /mnt/cdrom exists first (you'll need to be root to create the directory and probably root to mount the CD too). # mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom More commonly it'll actually be /dev/cdrom instead of /dev/hdb -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk http://www.dclug.org.uk http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/
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