[plug] Newbie: Convert win2000 to centos4

[Jay Warwick]

The cdrom is not bootable from the bios.  I am using using a 386 120mHz
PC.  I know this is very old specs for Centos4 but I only want to
learn/use the command line. 

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From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Caleb Duggan
Sent: Saturday, 21 January 2006 8:40 AM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Newbie: Convert win2000 to centos4

When do you run into trouble with your cd? when it gets to the stage
where it boots something? or is it booting off it and at a stage in the
install?

If it's not booting it, are you able to boot off other cd's? If not,
perhaps it's a bios setting?

I'm not quite sure what you said about rawrite but, there might be some
minimal boot floppy images available for download.  I always have _a
lot_ of trouble finding the floppy images when on the odd occasion i
need them in other distros. I think the image files are *.img.

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:11:12 +0800, Jay Warwick <jayw at buzzynet.net>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to convert an old 386 from running win2000 to Centos4 but 
> the cdrom is unrecognised.  I know I need to create a boot floppy - 
> other version of Linux I have been able to create using rawrite 
> facility but Centos4 does not appear to have the same type of image 
> file - am I missing something?
>
> The PC has two hdd's which I have just formatted the second because I 
> am not going to install centos to this disk and have dumped the iso's 
> to that location.
>
> So now I have either bootable Centos4 cd's or Centos4 iso images ready

> for install but don't know to access either.
>
> Thanks
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