old bios wont boot from CD

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: old bios wont boot from CD
started by: trif

Posted by trif on Jan. 02 2004,21:19

i have an old comp and i'm trying to run DSL but it wont boot from the CD because its old and it doesent have the option where can i get a boot disk to make it work ?

Posted by trif on Jan. 02 2004,22:27

i found it on the cd, but i dont have rawrite2 where can i get it from. Also all my floppy disks are 1.38 meg, anyone know how i can fix that ?

Posted by dscribner on Jan. 02 2004,23:35

You can find it on just about any GNU/Linux install CD for the majority of distros out there (the bigger ones, not necessarily the smaller ones, like DSL, that try to keep it <50 MB lean). But, lacking having any of them around and handy, it can also be found for download at:

< http://ftp.debian.org/debian/tools >

HTH!

Posted by trif on Jan. 03 2004,18:58

ok, i got it working from the boot floppy it made, thanks

Posted by Mika on Jan. 10 2004,02:46

You can make old computers boot off the cdrom drive even though the bios does not support it. Smart bootmanager is a program which makes this possible. It can be installed on the boot sector of a harddisk or on a floppy disk. The program is very small, so it boots up much quicker than a full kernel on a floppy disk. Smart bootmanager can be found here

< http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ >

Posted by fparri on Jan. 10 2004,21:09

Yep, that's a very nice proggie. I use it too ;)