Hi,
just put the dust off some old pentium I with 166MHz. The BIOS claims to
be able to boot from CD-ROM but this is not true. Put Smart Boot Manager
on a floppy (sbminst -d 0) and switched on this old machine. Smart Boot
Manager showed its menue and I was able to boot the CD-ROM!
Smart Boot
Jordan Share wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's really handy. I have commented on it before. I used it for
installing Windows XP from CD on a machine that wouldn't boot from CD.
I just wish I knew what the image name was called and where it could
be found.
Well, there is this:
Hello,
I have several workstations that don't support CD-ROM booting - and
therefore, can only be booted from a floppy.
Is it possible to start Unattended linuxboot from a floppy, and then
continue it from a CD-ROM? (as it's possible with installing Linux
distributions - they have a special
a floppy (when BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting)- possible?
Hello,
I have several workstations that don't support CD-ROM booting - and
therefore, can only be booted from a floppy.
Is it possible to start Unattended linuxboot from a floppy, and then
continue it from a CD-ROM? (as it's possible
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was playing around with v3.0 of debian, and somewhere on the
distribution CD there was a floppy disk image that you could boot from,
and it would present you another boot menu where you could choose what
DEVICE to boot from.
With this floppy, you could boot it,
Hi,
yes your right, same thought occured to me after I sent my mail, sorry!
Hm, did you try smart boot manager on a machine which could not boot from
CD?
Regards
Stefan Kell
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Jordan Share wrote:
Those links both discuss setting the BIOS to boot from CD after the HD,
and
Stefan Kell wrote:
Hm, did you try smart boot manager on a machine which could not boot from
CD?
To be honest, no. :) The docs explicitly talk about this functionality,
but I have never had cause to use it.
Jordan
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