[TriLUG] FC3 install boot floppies?

Glenn Meyer glenn at glennmeyer.com
Sun Jun 5 16:05:26 EDT 2005


Thank you both David and Jim for your quick responses.  I opted for 
Jim's solution, the Smart Boot Manager tool.  It was very easy and fast 
and worked perfectly, although David's solution was more Linux like.  
Thank you both!

Jim Thompson wrote:

>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 <glenn at glennmeyer.com> 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.
>>
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