hi, for some reason my cd rom has problems booting at start up, so i always need a floppy boot disk. where can i get one for suse 9.1? thanks

Try Smart Boot Manager. Very nice and easy. Its not a "boot for suse", but is really good.
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/3.7/ There are installers for win and lin.

If you wanna stick to suse stuff, this is the place to get their floppy images, assuming you want to install the pro version via ftp install.
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.1/boot/

i dont get the first link, sorry
and i chose the home version, i didnt know there was a free version of pro.
but i put the cd into my windows xp computer, and there were instructions on how to make the disks, but it didnt work for some reason.


With Linux, use commands like:

cd /where_CD1_is_mounted/boot

# insert first boot floppy, then run:

dd if=bootdsk1 of=/dev/fd0u1440

# insert second boot floppy, then run:

dd if=bootdsk2 of=/dev/fd0u1440

# insert third boot floppy, then run:

dd if=bootdsk3 of=/dev/fd0u1440

what would i put for the first line if i want to make them using a linux pc?

If you are using the personal cd, please disregard these prior instructions, and do this:

- Insert the personal cd into the drive and in win browse to dir /dosutils (I guess there is one dosutils on personal. As I don't have a personal, I'm looking into my pro cd version). There, you'll find tools for writing floppies to start the installation, main one should be rawrite, or rawritewin, if I recall.

- In the dir /boot you'll find the images supposed to be recorded to the floppies. Notice they are 1.4MB size, just like floopies, right? In my pro they are called bootdsk1, 2 and 3.

All you have to do is use the rawrite program to write images to blank floppies.

Take a look at the readme files, they are very easy to understand and they tell you in more detail what I just told here.

Post again if you get stuck.


EDIT: I thought you were using a win computer. On a linux computer, /where_cd_is_mounted/ should be something like /mnt/dvd or /mnt/cdrom, or in a suse computer /media/dvd...

alright, thank you very much bruno buys. for some reason there werent bootdsk1 - 3 in my boot dir, but i found a site that had them, and so far so good, just booted to the install screen. thanks a lot

cheers!...