Thanks for these, I looked at the disk but couldn't see anything obvious. I experimented last night and managed to make a rescue disk (which appears to be useless without a boot disk!) - I am now trying to use the 6.3 Boot disk with 6.4 installation CDs. This looked like it would work at home. The Adaptec card is working (that took a long time) and the installation starts loading 'data into the ram disk' This is taking forever with no (apparent) CD access, although I have been leaving it to cook. Is this a hardware problem or is it because I am using a 6.3 boot disk & 6.4 install? About to have another go. :-)
As far as I know all Linux distros come with a means of creating a boot disc. Many have a Dos program called rawrite. You can boot a PC into Dos mode with CD support and then create the boot disc. Yout manual should tell you how to do this. I do not have SuSE 6.4 but if you need more help I will look up a few of my distros, Slackware, RedHat and SuSE and send you some example syntax, instruction sets. best wishes, norman
Yes, the disk you need is on the first CD in the directory called disks. You can transfer them to floppy using e.g.
dd if=bootdisk of=/dev/fd0
or, on DOS the rawrite tool from the dosutils directory.
Good luck.