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Re: reformat Linux box?

Subject: Re: reformat Linux box?
From: "Doug Holtz"
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 19:42:37 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking
"Don" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:lE6he.37925$0X6.30877@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> If you really can't boot from CD or floppy even after changing the BIOS 
> then... well, thats one busted computer.  People here are obviously right 
> that failure to boot from floppy or CD is not a linux issue.  The same 
> thing would happen if you were trying to install your new operating system 
> over Win98.
>
> Seems to me the last ditch effort would be - yank the hard drive, stick it 
> into another machien that does boot from CD, install, put it back into 
> your server.
>
> Or buy a new machine that does boot from CD.
>
>

Unfortunately, my installs of W2K server don't like it when the drive is 
moved from install machine to different machine.  Seems the main board 
components give the O/S an issue and it won't boot.

Doug 



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