I'm not a linux guy, so I shooting from the hip.

Chris Buechler has a Live installer for v 1.1
http://chrisbuechler.com/index.php?id=17

couldn't you boot from a floppy with cd-rom support and then burn the
image to the harddrive..or am I "thinking" over simplistic.

- Don

On Apr 5, 2005 6:28 PM, Richard Harding <rick at ricksweb dot info> wrote:
> Richard Harding wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to install on an old PC. I was attempting to use the DSL
> > install approach. I have DSL working, downloaded the 1.11 generic
> > image. I then used the gunzip fed to dd. There were no errors and
> > running fdisk -l showed a FreeBSD paritition on /dev/hda4.
> >
> > Upon reboot I just get a "read error". I have tried downloading from
> > several sources and downloaded using both web browsers and wget from
> > command line. Does anyone have any idea what I am missing here? Is
> > there another step that needs to be made to get it to boot properly?
> > Why does dd create a /dev/hda4?
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Rick
> >
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> Ok, I got it to work by using this link:
> http://m0n0.ch/wall/list/?action=show_msg&actionargs[]=117&actionargs[]=23
> 
> If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate it as the system can
> not recover from a power outage in this way.
> 
> My other question is if there is a way to support no-ip.com dynamic DNS.
> I don't see it as an option and of course I just went and purchased a
> domain there with them and one year's service. :-)
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Rick
> 
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