Ive been working on making DSL work on my computers for the past two days with no significant progress. I have the iso burned on a cd as well as the lsm and md5(I think thats what they were) files, and several varient combinations of these burned on other disks. I am trying to make a boot disk of DSL so that I may run it from a computer by booting a floppy with the image and then it can read off the cd. My only problem is that i cant get DSL to boot on only the cd and all the information i can find is for making it inside DSL itself PLEASE HELP ME!could somone tell me how to make it outside of DSL on windows 98 or redhat 8.0

Not sure about DSL specifically, but usually, there is a directory call /images, which contains the bootdisk images, and a directory called /dosutils, which contains DOS utilities. In /dosutils, there should be a program called rawrite, or maybe winrawrite. Use that program, and the bootdisk image from /images, and it should create the boot-floppy.

Looking back at your message, did you just burn the ISO file to the CD as a data disk, or did you specific'ly tell the burning program you were buring an image? The first will just copy the ISO to a CD, and it won't be usable as a live-CD. The second will write the ISO file as if it was copying a CD. The difference is that the second option "reconstitutes" all the files from the ISO.

the cd burning is probably my problem because i burned it as a data cd, but there are no other choices that work on my burning program, just data cd , copy of another cd, or audio cd

Pyro*1

Are you running any other distro or windows xp by chance? on the computer

i tried it on a computer that had no distro and it didnt work, and i also tried to boot it on a computer with rh 8.0 but it only gave me a boot system that only gave me the choich of red hat itself and didnt even list the disk with the information on it

how would i make a cd where it reconstitutes the cd and makes it live, because for some reason i cant do it and im running out of cds to mess up

Pyro*1

I ask if you were using another distro IE windows xp becasue there is a program to burn iso image for xp. i find it a bit easier then linux to burn and iso. So if you are using Windows by chance ill give you the link to the burner app........

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

no unfortunatly i do not have xp, but hank you for telling me about it , as i had no idea that you had to do special things for iso files, i just thought you ran it.

i have windows 98 and rh 8.0. I am trying to use DSL on a laptop with only 16mb of ram and has no dos because i accidently fractured the partition table.


i cant install 8.0 on it because it dosent have enough ram and i really wanted to try DSL!

I GOT IT I GOT IT



sry, but i found a program that extracted the files, undisker!!! it had a free trial!

at http://www.undisker.com/index.html

it helped me a lot and thank you to everyone who helpedf me!!

I still havent tried the install yet