Thanks everyone for the replies....
I ended up upgrading the BIOS on the motherboard to get the boot from CDROM
to work. That was a feat upon itself because the motherboard manufacturer
was out of business. Luckily I had another out of work machine with the
same motherboard and a newer BIOS that I could copy. Now I am able to
install directly from CD.
Thanks.
Gilbert
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Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:31 PM
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Subject: Re: Debian Boot Floppies
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
<
http://slackware.at/data/slackware-current/rootdisks/sbootmgr.dsk> floppy
image. (from slackware.at
<
http://slackware.at/data/slackware-current/rootdisks/> )
For writing floppy images from Microsoft Windows, try one of these programs
<
http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/rawrite/#windows> or see debian manual
<
http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-install-methods#s4.3.2> .
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 <http://linux.simple.be/debian/install> SBM home
page <http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/>
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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