[Scottish] Pin drop

[Paul Millar]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote:
> i have a question, but it's probably not very interesting : forgot my boot
> disk at home, is there any way i could get Linux running ?  If no, that's
> alright, i'm asking out of curiosity.  I do have partition magic if that
> would help.

Depends what you're after.

If you're trying to get Linux up and running when MS has trashed your MBR 
then get a prebuilt kernel from somewhere and
  dd if=kernel of=/dev/fd0
  rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1
(or wherever your root partition is).  Although this does rather require a 
Linux machine up and running.

Alternatively, if you want a "full" Linux distro, try getting Tom's root
and boot, install it onto a floppy and reboot.

HTH

Paul.


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> 	From:  Allan Whiteford [SMTP:allan@whiteford.org.uk]
> 	Sent:  11 February 2003 11:51
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> 	Subject:  Re: [Scottish] Pin drop
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> 	willie fleming wrote:
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> 	> <quiet ting>
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> 	> either this list is broken or nothing interesting is happening.
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> 	> Willie Fleming
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