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Dear All, This may at first seem a bit odd but I am hopping to find some info that I feel would help the Linux community as a whole. With so many different flavours of Linux and with each distribution doing their own thing there doesn't seem to be any easy way to create a Linux install on a new virgin PC without committing oneself to a "Brand Name" (Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake

Dear Peter, first: thanks for the very prompt reply, I am not sure I would like to download 400+ meg file on my 56k modem though. Can that CD be purchased on line? Maybe some background here is needed: I am using SuSE Linux 6.4 and dual booting with windows 95 using LILO. I have found SuSE to be the easiest to mod so I would rather work with those files. There are quite large

Hello ! I have only 2 questions concerning my problem : 1) is there any limitation on the size of the kernel with isolinux ? (mine is 1230215 bytes. perhaps it's too big ?) 2) Is isolinux compatible with the use of the -z option of mkisofs, (transparent iso compression) even if the isolinux directory is not concerned by the compression ? That's all. sylvain

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I created a bootable linux cd and always had to enter the root device (cd drive) as kernel parameter at the syslinux prompt. (i.e. linux root=/dev/hdc) I could not set a fixed root device as this cd should be bootable on other systems with cd drive as /dev/hdd or something different, too. So my question is, is there a way of letting syslinux

...'t checked yet, but the release notes for comBIOS 1.26 seem to promise a fix for this problem, so you should probably try upgrading to that. I wont have my box at hand for a couple of weeks, but if its something simple (a bit-mask), perhaps you'd consider it. thanks for all your software (superrescue etc..)