Since my original
reply post is being held up by PLUG post size restrictions, I'll do
what I probably should have done in the first place and post a copy of
a page from the Debian
website with its references:
Smart Boot Manager
This nifty little floppy bootdisk allows selecting various devices to
boot
from a menu, and even allows booting a CD-ROM in machines where the
BIOS
doesn't support it. If your BIOS supposedly supports booting from a
CD-ROM
but that feature isn't working, this disk might be just what you need!
Download and write this SBM
sbootmgr.dsk
floppy image.
sbm.img floppy image. -->(from
slackware.at)
The SBM installer is available as a Slackware package (called "btmgr")
-->
For writing floppy images from Microsoft Windows, try one of these programs
or see debian
manual.
rawrite2
is the standard.
From Windows,
rawwritewin
is popular.
-->
Linux has a great program called dd for writing disk
images:
# dd if=image of=/dev/fd0 (where image is the image filename)
Floppy disks are one of the least reliable media around, so be
prepared for
some bad disks. It's a good idea to compare the written floppy disk
with the image file.
(Linux users can use cmp). If that fails, throw that floppy
away and try
another one. Label your floppies.
debian install howto
SBM home page
Mark Jarvis wrote:
Following a tip last month in plug, I downloaded a copy of Smart Boot
Manager from the Slackware site. It's great! Allows booting from any
bootable partition or your CD/DVD drive. I use it as an All-in-one
emergency boot disk.
It's small, so I've attached it here. I can't guarantee that it'll
allow booting from REALLY old CD drives, but it's worth a try.
It's a disk image, so use rawrite3 (Windows) or dd (Linux) to create
the image on a formatted floppy.
Hope it works.
-mj-
Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. wrote:
Has anyone had difficulty making boot disks
for Debian Woody? I cannot for
the life of me make boot disks. I have tried dd on a RedHat box and
used
Windows utilities. All of the floppies I make are non-bootable and
non-readable. Any suggestions?
Gilbert
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