Slackware 8.1

stayler stayler
Mon May 17 11:33:53 PDT 2004


On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:50:27 -0600, Collins wrote:

>All I did was download the ISO (1 hour plus on cable, YMMV with
>dialup) from I forget which mirror, use cdrecord to burn a cd, prep my
>partitions (Slack is not my only distro), boot up the cd, and install.
> Nothing could be simpler.  Of course, I deviated by declining to use
>Lilo, since I have a working grub setup - no distro writes to my mbr,
>thank your very much!

I was able to get around the bootable CD problem finally as well. 
Seems only newer MB's with "fixed" bios' are able to boot the CD. 
Something about most bios' are broken somehow.....

stayler




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