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Re: reformat Linux box?

Subject: Re: reformat Linux box?
From: Don
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 19:49:36 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking
Doug Holtz wrote:
"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

Yeah... I haven't done it myself and was wondering whether this was true a minute after I sent that. Well, my last piece of advice sounds like the one he is following :)

Don

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