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Author: Kyle Faber
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Subject: No boot devices
Another question for everyone,

=09I have recently come into posession of a pentium 100ish laptop, everyt=
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else is circa the same technology level. The BIOS does not support boot =
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CD and the floppy drive does not read disks.

=09It had Windows 98 installed when I recieved it and I successfully used=
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loadlin from DOS to boot a slackware install disk. I have decided that s=
lack=20
is not the distro for this machine at the moment so my question is:

"How do I use an existing linux installation to start a new installation,=
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successfully boot to the terminal on the slack install, issue a command a=
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have the installtion for a different distro startup."

Can I edit lilo to do this? It's installed and configurable.

I don't think I am using the right phrases for a googling to work. anyon=
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have any suggestions to try there?

Kyle Faber
EMR Internet