Simple Problem Installing DSL
I'm sure the answer is easy, I just can't find it.
I've got an old box with no USB, and a BIOS which can not boot from CD-ROM. It does have a CD-ROM drive, and it can boot from floppy. Is there a boot floppy out there that would let me access my already burned DSLinux CD and install onto the hard drive? |
Have a look at Smart Boot Manager. Here is a link.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ I've used this on an old IBM Aptiva to boot live linux CD's and it worked for me. |
The best bet is to go here
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...small/current/ dsl's current directory and download the bootfloppy.img and use rawrite from dos to copy to a floppy disk. this will boot dsl cd..hope that helps |
camorri: Thanks for that link! That program will certainly be useful in future old machine installs I plan to do... however, it did not work in this case, because the CD-ROM is connected via a SCSI controller (remember when everybody was gay for SCSI?) and SBM couldn't detect it.
thisbl3: I forgot to mention that I've used that before. It doesn't work on the machine I'm testing it on: it just hangs up. We're talking a Pentium I here, with a SCSI hard drive and CD-ROM... I don't know if that's the issue or not... That being said, I did manage to "trick" the SCSISelect Utility installed on the machine into thinking the BIOS was set to boot the CD-ROM first (even though the BIOS has no idea there's a CD-ROM connected at all). So I was able to boot the CD! But now I'm getting a "Knoppix filesystem not found" message... Time to go forum searching... :cry: |
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