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Topic: SBD Smart Boot Disk(Floppy)

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Posted: Feb. 07 2006,06:26

Hi I´ve found out that on old laptops with cdrom you cant boot directly from cdrom, and than you must have a boot floppy.. this happend me when i install Ubuntu and on there install cd you have an boot floppy but it wasent a old boot floppy. It was an bios that works like you own bios but it gives you a possebillity to boot from cd. And it work with all boot cd´s, even win all verr. linux all verr. This one i strongly recomend for those of you how has an cdrom but cant boot directly from it, what ever you want to install..

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Posted: Feb. 07 2006,08:31

Could you edit your post with a Link?

Is it freeware?

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Posted: Feb. 14 2006,17:08

Here is a link to the home page. It does not talk about writing to track 0 of a floppy but I believe that is possible. All of the downloads on this site are auto installers.

http://btmgr.webframe.org/

Here is a link to a site with a link to a floppy disk image.

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

I have used it before but could not get it to boot from cdrom on my machine. But at the time I had a proprietary sony cdrom (conected to a jazz sound card). I haven't tried it lately. I would suggest above all else make sure you are writing to a floppy to test it so you don't write your hard disk track 0.

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Posted: Feb. 15 2006,05:34

Hm sorry. I dident think..
The link should be there. Thanx for reminding mee.
Ive got alot of error mess when I was booting the Cd-rom but ive keept on pushed enter buttom. and after 2-4 times it starting to boot from the cdrom... Ive use it to boot all kinds of dist. and windows disc, so it is working.

I hope this will help..

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