Assuming the box has a CD-rom drive: I have an old laptop with the same issue - it has a CD-ROM but the BIOS is old enough that it doesn't support booting from it. I've had really good results from "Smart Boot Manager":
http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3?body=download.html You can create a boot floppy with Smart Boot Manager, boot off it it and it will then pass control directly to your bootable CD-ROM. Works great. On 6/4/05, Glenn Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an older box that won't boot from the CD drive. I don't see the > old bootdisk.img to make a floppy that red hat used to have on the first > CD. Is that not an option anymore? Is there a way to create a boot > floppy to then run the install from CD? I see comments with the same > question on google but no solutions. > > Thank you. > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
