Chuck;
Is/ will this be a duel boot machine? If so you can start the RedHat 7.3
install by going into the dosutils dir on the cd and running
autoboot.bat (I think that's the name, it's a .bat anyway). That's a
little easier than creating floppys and booting from them
Mike M.
wchast@utilpart.com wrote:
>Folks;
>I have noticed a irritating thing with some Toshiba laptops, the things
>will not boot from a linux CD. I am trying to load RH 7.3 on a Toshiba
>Portege 7010CT, I can still a XP or 2K boot CD in there and the silly
>thing will see it and boot right up, but if I stick a LINUX cd in there
>no joy. Has anyone seen this behavior with these machines, I have also
>noticed it with the Tecras and some other Toshiba laptops.
>
>If I have to I will create a boot disk and do it that way but I would
>like to walk about it, by way I have checked the bios and it does check
>the CD before the HD, and in fact I know since I have stuck other bootable
>CD's in the machine (XP, 2K and 98) and watched it find them and boot
>on them.
>
>I have to use RH (that is what the company gave me) and I have to use
>either a tecra or a portege, (also company machines)
>
>Any ideas beyond doing the install with a boot disk?
>
>
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