Best Answer: unless the drive is completely dead, you can slave it into another computer and drag the files off.
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Re:okay I tried it again, when it gets to the "interactive startup mode" and deamons start to come up and display [ ok ] on the console in green, etc.. well it starts scolling this crap : [[21~^[[21~^[[21…
over and over and over
really weird
I'll try to fix it
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Re:lol.. no no I know what the normal bootup messages are, I am familiar and work with many varietes of unix. I am speaking of complete ascii garbage characters scrolling page after page, but when the system displays startup information during the boot process, those messages are despersed between all the garbage, its quite redeculous. but i only saw it once, I will boot it to linux again and see if its still there.
but like i said once it gets to the login prompt its okay
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Re:The ascii stuff is probably the normal boot up process. It's just the kernel echoing information to the screen.
Is it the same as the stuff in /var/log/messages?
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Re:I have it partitioned with a primary for XP, and all the rest are on an extended
but I have it up now and I am successfully dual booting XP and redhat. only thing was, I had to change my lilo.conf to correctly find XP, and when I rebooted into linux last night, when it was booting it was scrolling crazy random ascii garbage all over the console.. but once it got to the login prompt it was okay and everything worked. I may need to refresh the lilo.conf file again
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Re:… How are you creating the partitions??
You have to be carefull because you can't have more than 4 primary partitions on a disk!!
You should create a Primary partition for XP, and then an extend to hold all of the other ones!!
And don't forget to read the howtos at www.linuxdoc.org!
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Re:No offense but this is funny.
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Re:oh jeez..:D
this is the stupidest thing ever…
so I am now in the process of installing linux on my laptop finally
the problem this whole time has been that I thought I could only have either my floppy or the dvd installed at one time, not both.. thus causing my problems getting linux installed.
now i bought this laptop used, didnt have a manual or anything. it came with an external drive that would hold the floppy but the plug on it was weird and I didnt see anything on the laptop that matched it.
well after 2 days of headaches I was about to give up when I saw something on the side of the laptop that was covering up (very discreetly I might add, since it took me this long to find it) the plugin for the external floppy.
punched myself in the face.. (not really) then proceeded to boot from the floppy AND access the redhat cd . 
thanks for all the help, it was just my dumb ass the whole time
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Re:okay I"m home from work now and tried the holding down C thing.. it worked for a win98 cd that I had, but it still refuses to boot this linux cd.. WTF
I undid the read-only attributes on the G: FAT32 partition mirror of the redhat cd.. gonna try again to see if it can find the files now
has anyone ever successfully installed redhat from the hard drive? what am I doing wrong? do I need /RedHat or RedHat or nothing in the directory part? or maybe \RedHat, or /RedHat/ or \RedHat\ or nothing at all, I've tried it all
edit- okay, tried again from the hard drive now that I took the files off read only and still it can't find them.. I am f-ing stumped
one last try, gonna see if a pcmcia boot disk has the drivers for my Xircom nic so I can ftp install. but I dont think it will with my luck getting this to work 
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Re:Post back if it does boot.
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Re:found a site with info on installing linux on this particular laptop.. it included this info:
<< thanks for the link.. it mentioned this on the page for my model:
2.2 Booting
You can change the boot priority in the BIOS, or you can boot from the CD by holding down the letter "c" at boot time.
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so it wouldn't pick up the cd and boot from it by changing the bios, but I'll see if it boots when I hold down C
Re:its a toshiba tecra 8000 p2-350, dvd rom, 128mb ram 6gb ide
from the redhat linux 7.2 boot floppy is there any way to drop to a command prompt so I can see if it is reading the FAT32 partition? holding alt and going thru the F* keys shows me a couple different consoles but no command prompt
edit- i could get around all this if I could have both the cd and floppy installed at the same time.. bought the lappy used, it came with an external floppy enclosure with some odd connector on the end of its cable that has no matching connector anywhere on the laptop so I cant seem to use it externally.. but I can pop the dvd out and slide in the floppy
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Re:Wow thats really wierd and sucky at the same time. I don't have a clue as to why it shoudn't boot besides maybe the cd being a little too dirty for that particular dvd/cd-rom to read but I highly doubt thats the problem though. Am just fresh out of ideas here maybe someone else could jump in and help, by the way what kind of laptop is it ?
Re:the bios is set cd first and it boots other cd's just fine, it just wont boot this redhat cd. but the redhat cd boots fine on other systems
Re:Did you set your settings in your BIOS correctly or does your laptop automaticaly detect which boot device to look for ( other then your hard drive ) when booting ?
Re:i made a boot floppy from pcmcia.img and booted it, and it just asked me to stick a driver disk in.. there was another pcmcia image, didnt try it yet.. I'll try when I get home
Re:Try booting of the PCMCIA boot floppy. That is basically network+PCMCIA drivers.
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