Install some sort of minimalist distro with GRUB onto the computer. Put the CD image onto the hard drive, and use GRUB to boot the image from there. Some people still seem to strongly prefer LILO (the reasons are still a mystery to me), but GRUB is definitely what you need in this particular instance. Best tool for the job and such.
I've personally done this before, and it works fine, at least for Fedora Core. I am not sure how Slack's installer would react to such a move - try to use a netinstall iso if one exists. -DMZ On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 13:11 -0400, J. Milgram wrote: > Here's a challenge for the pros. > > Have an older Micron, BIOS doesn't allow booting from CDROM. > > I want to install Slack 10.1, but it seems that now you need to make > three floppies - one boot, and two root disks. I'm sick of floppies and > anyway for some reason the floppies I'm making aren't working for some > reason. > > So ... other than finding a new BIOS and flashing it (no luck so far on > finding one), any clever ideas? > > Could I make a boot floppy with nothing but LILO on it, configured to > pass off to /dev/hdc (the bootable CDROM)...? > > -- David Zakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
