Booting from floppy

mhelliwell · 02-14-2005, 07:12 PM

I have a very old computer. It is a 486, with no OS on it. It cannot boot from a CD. That means I need to make a floppy. How do I do this?(in Windows terms,please. I am burning to Floppy on my other comp) Obviously, a floppy cant fit the whole OS, so what do I need to load on there??? Please let me know.

jailbait · 02-14-2005, 08:18 PM

"Obviously, a floppy cant fit the whole OS, so what do I need to load on there???"

Actually it can. You can start by creating a floppy containing tomsrtbt. That will give you an OS to start with.

http://www.toms.net/rb/

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Steve Stites

tsphan · 02-14-2005, 08:33 PM

you could use some sort of "Smart Boot" thingy, it's free and it fits on a floppy. It "tricks" your computer into booting from the cdrom drive, it might work, cause it worked for me when I was installing onto a computer without cdrom boot.

mhelliwell · 02-14-2005, 08:52 PM

Where do I get this "Smart Boot" thingy?

tsphan · 02-17-2005, 08:34 PM

sorry, havn't got back on in a while

http://btmgr.webframe.org/