Hi Robert:

On 3/18/06, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mar 18, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Jon Drews wrote:
> >  Alternatively, you can try Smart Boot Manager
> >
> > http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html
> >
> > EXCERPT:
> > SBM now supports booting from floppy, hard disk and CD-ROM.
>
> Yup, tried that, too.  No dice.  I find it odd that a machine that
> can boot from the CD-ROM is not able to be booted either from grub on
> a floppy or the SmartBootManager.
>

  Gee - what a disappointment. I did find boot floppies for Open SuSE.
http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD#Internet.2FNetwork_install_using_GRUB.2FLILO

Internet/Network install using boot floppies

To boot and install from floppy disks you need to download the first
installation CD iso (SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-CD1.iso). Now the
following needs to be done as root from the directory where you saved
the CD1 installation iso. Do the following as root from the folder
where the iso exists:

# su
# mount -t iso9660 -o loop SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-CD1.iso /mnt
# /mnt/boot/mkbootdisk /mnt

Do the next command for each floppy disk, bootdisk1-7

# dd if=bootdisk1 of=/dev/fd0


--
Kind regards,
Jonathan
 
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