On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:57:25 EST, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I asked this question on 3dbuzz.com, but didn't get a helpful response. > I am trying to install a different distribution of linux onto my > Mandrake computer. I am trying to create a boot floppy that I can use > to boot my computer from the CD-ROM. I have been searching on google > for this, but keep getting "how to create a floppy that can be booted > from" instead of "how to create a floppy that will cause the computer to > boot from the CD-ROM." The BIOS is set to boot from the CD, and I have > a the CD in the drive, but it doesn't work. And I can't create one from > inside of Mandrake since something happened to where I can't login. The > computer that I am using now has Windows Me.
Steven, If you want to reset your root password: http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,24330,2246389,00.html I don't know of any bootable floppy that will allow the CDROM to boot. I'm not saying it can't be done, but I haven't heard of it. It comes down to a problem of your PC not having the CDROM driver in its BIOS as newer computers do with IDE CDROM drives. The boot sector is not big enough (512 bytes) to contain CDROM drivers. I guess it would be possible to write an app in assembler that would start from the boot sector and then would load a CDROM driver then boot from the CDROM, but it seems easier just to make an install boot floppy for the Linux distro you want to install. Most (all?) Linux distros have boot install floppies. Lemme know if this does not answer your question. -- John Hebert System Engineer I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com
