can't boot from CD on my old 486

newbiesforever · 06-10-2006, 02:51 AM

Because I heard that DSL was very likely to run on ancient computers, I tried running the liveCD on my roughly twelve-year-old 486, really just to see if I could. Unfortunately, the system configuration on the machine does not seem to allow for using the CD drive as the first boot option; it only offers floppy drive and hard drive. Any ideas on how to make it boot from the CD anyway?

linmix · 06-10-2006, 05:13 AM

You could use the boot manager from http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr to boot from a floppy into the cd.

Also read this: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/i.../Boot_Floppies