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Re: Old Computer



> I have, what i hope to be, a quick question.  I just got this old Tandy
> 4825 SX computer, and i really want to put linux on it..  The only
> problem is, so far, I cant get BIOS to load up the cdrom  drive, so i
> can boot off that.  And the Window$ is all messed up and i can only get
> it to load up in Safe mode, but i know that the cd player does work,
> because the guy i got it from, was showing me things on it.  So is there
> any way i can make a boot disk or something?  I am going to install
> RedHat 6.0.  Any help would be appreciated.

You can use the "rawrite.exe" dos program, in the /dosutils directory
on the CD to create a boot diskette to install Redhat.  Use the file 
"boot.img" on the cdrom in the directory /images as the boot image.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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