Re: Install Woes

[Bill <bill wiliweld com>]

Online Design wrote:
> 
> I wish to install RH5.2, on an old PB desktop. It's running an Intel OD,
> with 64 m of Ram. I pulled a 1x gig HDD from another box, which has win95
> on it.....I can boot the machine with that drive.
> The CD-ROM connects to the SB16 card, and it's an older BIOS, so boot from
> CD won't work.
> I tried to boot to DOS, then run autoboot, but the drive comes up invalid,
> even tho it's detected. I assume this is normal, due to the architecture.
> I made no less than 4 boot disks on my P3 550.....when I hit enter at
> "boot:", it returns "loading", with 4 or 5 ".....", then halts. Game over.
> I considered the install from the HDD, but that requires boot floppies, if
> I could, I wouldn't have to....well you get the idea.
> When I made some of the boot disks, I used "dir a:', just in case the
> address was the problem. Still no go. Occassioally, when I hit enter at the
> first RH screen, the machine just reboots!
> 
> Any ideas?


..............I think I'd go into the drive via a DOS boot disk and blow
away anything I saw, then fdisk it with a generic DOS identity and maybe
a simple FAT16 format, maybe not, then start over. Just my $0.02 :).