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CIE

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Posted: Aug. 06 2005,12:54

Hi. First of all, sorry any possible wrongwritted word, cause im portuguese, and my english isnt perfect. Im a big newbie about linux, so please be patient

My question is: in home page of DSL, says
"Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram "
but, how i can boot from the cd, if the PC Bios doesnt support booting from cd (just Hdd and Floppy)?

I have one bootable disk, that when loads, also loads cdrom drivers, and after boot it creates a Virtual disk in Ram, and then i can have acess to the cd-rom.

So, like when we want to install windows we do
"d:/setup"

Its possible to do that with DSL
(like D:/dslconfig)?

and then the dsl start booting?

If is not possible , please help me with how i can boot from a bios that doesnt support booting from cdrom?

Best regards for all.
Carlos Saraiva
Lisbon - Portugal

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Posted: Aug. 06 2005,13:36

You are better off not using a DOS-based floppy to boot a linux system (although it's possible with some additional software).

There is a bootfloppy.img file on the DSL mirrors, same place as the ISOs. Use something like rawrite or winimage to create a boot floppy from it.

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Posted: Aug. 06 2005,14:42

If you are lucky enough to have a 486 with a real ide cdrom, and not one of those stupid ones that run off of a card, you can use a Smart Boot Manager floppy.

SBM is a lot faster than the DSL bootdisk, smaller, and works with every bootable CD.

http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm

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cbagger01

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Posted: Aug. 06 2005,15:56

If you own a 486, I would be shocked if your CDROM was a normal IDE/ATAPI type.

So I would do this:

Boot up your old OS.
Insert the DSL livecd.
Copy \KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX\ over to C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX
using all capital letters.
Download the DSL boot floppy image from the website.
Search google and download the rawrite2 or rawrite32 floppy image transfer program.
Use rawrite and the boot floppy image to create a DSL boot floppy disk.

Reboot PC with the floppy disk already inserted.

CIE

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Posted: Aug. 06 2005,16:59

Hi

Tkx foi the help, i didnt knew about linux bootable diks.

However, as said "SaidinUnleashed" & "cbagger01", the Cd-rom cable is conected to a Interface ISA Card, and HDD is also conected to it.

There's any kind of problem in that situation?

Tkx every1

Carlos Saraiva

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