Tomsrtbt: how?

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andrzejpw · Post by **andrzejpw** » Fri May 03, 2002 1:06 am

I have an windows XP box. How would I go about installing tom's boot disc? I get get into dos. . . Is tehre an image I can download?

klieber · Post by **klieber** » Fri May 03, 2002 1:20 am

andrzejpw wrote:I have an windows XP box. How would I go about installing tom's boot disc? I get get into dos. . . Is tehre an image I can download?

Well, a good place to start would be the tomsrtbt disk site and specifically the FAQ. (and even more specifically, question #5 on the FAQ entitled "DOS installation"...)

--kurt

andrzejpw · Post by **andrzejpw** » Fri May 03, 2002 1:24 am

windows XP. . .

klieber · Post by **klieber** » Fri May 03, 2002 1:31 am

andrzejpw wrote:windows XP. . .

Sigh...you didn't even bother to read the FAQ. To quote part of it:

This is for installing tomsrtbt from a DOS/Windows system.

--kurt

klieber · Post by **klieber** » Fri May 03, 2002 1:36 am

This method works. Really. I've used it to create a tomsrtbt disk from Win2K, WinNT and WinXP.

--kurt

andrzejpw · Post by **andrzejpw** » Fri May 03, 2002 2:23 am

I've read the faq about 30 times. Thing is, winXP doesn't have a real dos mode, so no boot into linux.

andrzejpw · Post by **andrzejpw** » Fri May 03, 2002 10:54 am

anyone?

steveD · Post by **steveD** » Sat May 04, 2002 1:44 am

Go to www.bootdisk.com
I downloaded the DOS version of win 98 to upgrade my BIOS.
You can boot to DOS this way.

andrzejpw · Post by **andrzejpw** » Sat May 04, 2002 2:57 am

I tried the win98 boot disk a while ago. winXP is ntfs, remember?

no bother though, I figured out how to use the slackware disk! YAHOO

squanto · Post by **squanto** » Sat May 04, 2002 5:26 am

can't you type "cmd" at the run prompt to get a dos prompt?
I know that that works in win2k.
Not sure if that was an issue or not though for XP making the tom's disk, but an idea.

andrzejpw · Post by **andrzejpw** » Sat May 04, 2002 1:59 pm

I tried it. There is a command prompt, but theres not real dos. So you can't boot to "linux" to make the disk.

squanto · Post by **squanto** » Sat May 04, 2002 3:13 pm

oh, ok, I see.
Well atleast the other disks worked for you.

-Andrew

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