11-26-2004, 06:07 PM
I have an old laptop (a Samsung Sens 810) I haven't touched in years. It had Windows 95 on it. I thought it would be cool to wipe out the harddirve and put Linux on there. So I did the following and now I am stuck (I'm surprised i got this far).
I turned in on and went to the command line mode. I typed "format c:". Ok now what?
I have a copy of Redhat Linux 8.0 (it's on 3 CD's). I thought the fucker would boot up from the CD drive and start the install but it won't. The boot sequence is: A drive then hard disk. So does the CD -rom not count as the A drive or do I have to get this thing started from the floppy drive? Does this thing recognize either the CD ROM AND the floppy drive as the "A" drive or is it just the floppy drive? Also I can't get into BIOS to try and mess with it. Is that possible or did I completely fuck that up when I typed "format c:"
How should I proceed? It's just keeps asking me to put a disk in the drive (the floppy drive I assume, it's just not seeing the CD).
I turned in on and went to the command line mode. I typed "format c:". Ok now what?
I have a copy of Redhat Linux 8.0 (it's on 3 CD's). I thought the fucker would boot up from the CD drive and start the install but it won't. The boot sequence is: A drive then hard disk. So does the CD -rom not count as the A drive or do I have to get this thing started from the floppy drive? Does this thing recognize either the CD ROM AND the floppy drive as the "A" drive or is it just the floppy drive? Also I can't get into BIOS to try and mess with it. Is that possible or did I completely fuck that up when I typed "format c:"
How should I proceed? It's just keeps asking me to put a disk in the drive (the floppy drive I assume, it's just not seeing the CD).