Thread: Landy's n Linux

Rightio baby steps, baby steps. I spent last night having a fiddle with this. Ive tried booting from a Unbuntu ISO CD into the laptop but it doesnt like it. It returns the following blurb.
bad or missing file A:\DRDOS\display.sys

then it prompts to hit any key. doing so gives me the following
bad or missing interpreter please enter valid filenme
eg. C:\command.com

I then downloaded a lighter version called puppy and tried booting from the ISO cd i burnt of that and i get the same messages. Does this mean i have to manually wipe the hard drive on the laptop before a distro will boot? The lappy is running Win95 at the moment. (retro cooooooool)

Bump, can anyone help get me past this promt or let me know what im doing wrong?
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Originally Posted by Mick-Kelly

Rightio baby steps, baby steps. I spent last night having a fiddle with this. Ive tried booting from a Unbuntu ISO CD into the laptop but it doesnt like it. It returns the following blurb.
bad or missing file A:\DRDOS\display.sys

then it prompts to hit any key. doing so gives me the following
bad or missing interpreter please enter valid filenme
eg. C:\command.com

I then downloaded a lighter version called puppy and tried booting from the ISO cd i burnt of that and i get the same messages. Does this mean i have to manually wipe the hard drive on the laptop before a distro will boot? The lappy is running Win95 at the moment. (retro cooooooool)

Maybe you have a bad disc burn???
other than that this is how you boot up the disc.

1st you need to set the boot sequence of your PC.
you must enable CDROM to be your first item in the list of boot order.
To do this hit the DELETE key on you keyboard as you boot the computer up. This will take you into BIOS. Navigate to the boot settings and change them there.
2nd. Insert the Ubuntu disc and start up your computer.
It should then boot to the ubuntu live disc.
3. To install hit the install icon and follow the prompts.
during the install it will ask you if you want to erase the hard drive.
If you want to get rid of that windows95 then choose ok and it will erase and format the hard drive ans start the installation

Originally Posted by Mick-Kelly

Rightio baby steps, baby steps. I spent last night having a fiddle with this. Ive tried booting from a Unbuntu ISO CD into the laptop but it doesnt like it. It returns the following blurb.
bad or missing file A:\DRDOS\display.sys

then it prompts to hit any key. doing so gives me the following
bad or missing interpreter please enter valid filenme
eg. C:\command.com

I then downloaded a lighter version called puppy and tried booting from the ISO cd i burnt of that and i get the same messages. Does this mean i have to manually wipe the hard drive on the laptop before a distro will boot? The lappy is running Win95 at the moment. (retro cooooooool)

Mick.

It sounds like your burner software is not playing nice with the ISO file. An ISO is an image of a disk, in a single file. Use Nero to burn the ISO, click "burn ISO to disk, when complete, the disk should have a bunch of directories and files on it, not just 1 ISO file.

1 It returns the following blurb.
bad or missing file A:\DRDOS\display.sys
This indicates to me, the machine is set to boot:- A: (floppy) first, then hard disk, and Optical drives last. To boot from CD, change the boot device order in BIOS. My machines are all set in BIOS to boot, floppy, CD\DVD, First hard disk. In that order.

2 bad or missing interpreter please enter valid filenme
eg. C:\command.com
This is a Win95 hang. It harks back to the days of DOS. Refresh Win95?

You should not have to format the hard drive just to boot from a CD\DVD.
All "live" CD's I have used, give no problems at all, in this respect, and will give access to the Windows drive once booted.
Puppy, and DSL (Damn Small Linux) work beautifully, on almost any IBM clone PC. Check the PuppyLinux and DSL threads at "LinuxQuestions.com".
Both run as a live CD, that is, the whole OS is run from the CD, no instalation is required. DSL, all 38 MB of it, will actually load in its entirety into system RAM, this gives a system that is blindingly fast, even in older machines.You can then remove the CD from the machine and have access to the CD drive for other purposes.
Hope this helps some.

Shorty.

drop the thing into the shop and i will install debian on it for you mr mick...

Oooh. The full on geeky hackers distro.
Nice one Inc. Rock solid, and reliable as a Series Landy.

Shorty.