New for sure. I have a old 166 with 32 meg of ram that I can run dsl live cd on but tried to do hd install and got all the way through untill it said " ready to reboot" or something like that. The cd door opens and then everything just stops. I should also say that I can only run syslinux type cd as nothing else boots. Any help would be great and if you need more info let me know. ThanksThen the reboot what happens? Any error message? Which were their installation steps exactly?I'm sorry. I have to power it down manually and try to boot but get a "no operating system please insert disk to boot" type error. I know I have changed the boot sector so Win95 will no longer boot and that is ok. I was thinking that I need to partition the whole drive and tried gparted over the weekend but it wouldn't boot up on that machine. Any ideas would be nice. Thanks
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"no operating system please insert disk to boot"
The old computers can't boot from CDROM drive. They can boot only from hard disk and floppy drive but fortunately there are a solution: Create a DSL boot floppy. Here how: to:Boot Floppies Then reboot your computer with the floppy disk and DSL LiveCD into the respective drives. The boot floppy will redirect boot process towards the DSL LiveCD.I am booting from live cd with syslinux dsl. It's the hard drive that is screwed up from the hd install from the dsl disk. I think I need help with commands that will reformat the hd but it must be done from the dsl disk as nothing else boots up. I tried to use cfdisk and fdisk but get errors that blow me out of the shell, something like "fatal error press enter to return to something" I have seen other people in this forum with this same error. I tried their fix to no avail. Thanks for any help.Next Page...
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