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| Mr. Three:
I have already completed a four player cocktail cabinet and have placed an elderly Dell l667r into it, which worked for a short while then, due to driver soundcard problems, became inoperable. I decided to reformat the drive and reinstall something that would allow this machine to run with a bit more robustness. This was about three or four months ago. So here this thing sits, unworking, with no operating system on it. I have tried many, MANY different installation CDs - TinyXp, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, an original Win98 disk, etc. etc. etc., only to just get a hint from another message board that the l667r doesn't allow booting from CD. Great. Super. :hissy: I just found an old floppy drive I scavenged from an even older machine, but I see no connector for a floppy connection on this motherboard. Sigh. I just don't know what to do with this machine. Part of the appeal of building it was recycling older material into something new, and I am not buying a dedicated computer for this project. I want to make this one work, but have no idea how to install an operating system on it, much less a good one. I need your help and opinions! Before I go even more insane! Help! |
| SGT:
It would be extremely weird for this motherboard to not support booting from CD. Go into the BIOS and make booting from CD the priority. While you're in there make sure the IDE for the CD drive hasn't been disabled. If it is already set to boot from CD, I would swap out the CD Drive like this guy did with the same computer: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-installation-39/fc3-installer-wont-boot-from-cd-324725/ It's also extremely weird that you do not have a floppy controller on this mobo. Look more closely. Is this the original motherboard for this Dell? For Win98, you'll need a floppy disk as Win98 CDs weren't bootable as I recall. If you can hookup a floppy drive, you can get a bootdisk from here: http://bootdisk.com/ |
| BORIStheBLADE:
It has to boot from cd, thats the only way you would be able to load the OS. |
| Mr. Three:
It does have a floppy socket, I may have misspoken. How can I load anything onto a floppy that is connected to a computer that won't boot? Ubuntu is as close to an actual working install I ever got, but it produced error after error after error during its "install". I wish this was easier. I don't know how to install any operating system on this computer. |
| Mr. Three:
This (http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=dim_bios&message.id=45060&c=us&l=en&cs=&s=gen) was what led me to believe that I couldn't boot from CD. I have tried lots of different options and burned many many CDs now, and none of them work. |
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