rodg wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the input so far. My solution will be to get some more
> ram out of another non-functioning box.
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> I am now running into another problem. There seems to be no way in the bios
> to tell this box to boot from CD. It does have DOS installed and working,
> but I am not a dos person by any means. How can I make it fire up the iso
> image on the cd? I can see it is there, just can't figure out how to make
> it execute? I tried looking for an updated bios, but no luck so far on that.
> Hopefully someone out there knows the dos command to ececute that image...
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> Thanks again. It's a fun experiment to see if I can get this old dinosauer
> doing something worthwhile rather than ending up in a landfill.
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> "Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez" <jkerouac@bgsec.com> wrote in message
> news:mUmYc.111503$r4.2946160@news-reader.eresmas.com...
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>>rodg wrote:
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>>>I am looking for an iso of a minimal linux distro for a 386:
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>>>with 8mb ram, 430 mb hd, pentium 75mhz currently has windoz3.1/dos.
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>>>please reply to newsgroup & comprecyclerftc@yahoo.com
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>>>thanks in advance!
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>>If you are talking about a LiveCD you can find some in the Knoppix
>>home site, all variants from the Knoppix distribution. Also there is
>>a Gnome LiveCD lite I think.
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>>If you are talking about a distribution to install, Debian would be
>>the more obvious advice, but someone told in some newsgroup that the
>>installer needed 16Mb to run, so he said the best solution would be
>>a Slackware.
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>>--
>>
>>Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez
>>Director Tecnico de bgSEC
>>jkerouac@bgsec.com
>>bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos
>>http://www.bgsec.com
>>ESPAÑA
>>
>>The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live,
>>mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
>>the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn
>>like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
>> -- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"
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This is the tool you nead http://btmgr.webframe.org/

Best regards
Staale