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Posted: Jan. 02 2004,21:19 QUOTE
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 ?
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Posted: Jan. 02 2004,22:27 QUOTE
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 ?
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Posted: Jan. 02 2004,23:35 QUOTE
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

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Posted: Jan. 03 2004,18:58 QUOTE
ok, i got it working from the boot floppy it made, thanks
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Posted: Jan. 10 2004,02:46 QUOTE
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/
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