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Help installing RH Linux 6.1 on laptop...



Problem seems to be with scratchpad mouse. That is the point that
install keeps
stopping at. Anyone have any suggestions how I can get Linux to ignore
the mouse? Its
a PS-2 of 'sometype'

Kevin

Mike Bilow wrote:

> The "rawrite" DOS utility just copies raw data onto a floppy.  It knows
> knothing about filesystems, boot blocks, or anything else like that.  All
> it knows is how to copy a series of bytes which is constructed by some
> other means and put into an image file.  It is essentially the DOS version
> of the Linux "dd" utility.
>
> -- Mike
>
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Kevin M. Gleason wrote:
>
> > Updates-RHEA-1999_044.img with something and same for boot-RHEA-1999_045.img. RH
> > said her level of support was not high enough to 'talk' to someone but she could
> > get and recieve email. They said her video was a supported card and the
> > processor was supported.
> > Does anyone know the EXACT procedure for using these files?
> > Doesn't that utility rawrite (in /DOSUTILS) copy files in DOS format over a
> > Linux native disk? Shouldn't this actually copy a boot image over to a floppy
> > disk and make it bootable?
>
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