boot floppy

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Thu Aug 11 05:06:13 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 14:32 -0500, Raymond Norton wrote:
> 
>>I have a box that does not boot from the CD. I want to install core 3 or
>>4. There is not a floppy.img on the CD, and the mkbootdisk command I found
>>on a howto is not working for me. What is the best way to get this done?
> 
> 
> Use smart boot manager (http://btmgr.webframe.org/). You can boot it
> from a floppy and then use it to boot the CD, even if your BIOS can't
> manage that itself.

I can second that recommendation. In fact, I was going to suggest
it, but you beat me to it.

Raymond, take Paul's advice. That is a very nice tool.

Mike
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