Actualy, it does. What it does is let a machine that doesn't support booting from a CD boot from a CD anyway. The floppy is basicly a loader program that finds your CD-ROM drive, checks if there is a bootable CD in it, and then boot from the CD. It also works on systems with more then one CD-ROM drive. I have worked with a couple of systems that would not boot from CD if there was more then one CD-ROM drive. Even though the BIOS wouldn't handle booting from CD with more then one drive, this program would.On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:00:34 -0600 evolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This program will make a boot disk that can let old machines boot any bootable cd (worked for me on old pentium):
http://ebcd.pcministry.com/download/oldbios.exe
Doesn't help much if the 10.0 kernel is too big to fit on a floppy :(.
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>There should be a way to make a stripped down kernel (like take out a lot of extra module support) for just this purpose.
The number of modules doesn't have much affect on kernel size. Things like cutting down on the number of SCSI modules, or NICS does not help. NOt supporting any SCSI drives, or no network support would help, but then you have to have different boot disks, depending on how you are installing. (IDE system, SCSI system, network install, ect...)
Failing that, I much preferred some of the older CDs because you could use them as a boot disk as well as a rescue disk. For instance, you could simply type "linux single root=/dev/hdaX" (or something like that) at the linux prompt, when booting from CD. That functionality seems to be missing from Mandrake.
> Mikkel --
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