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Topic: Using CD DSL with FD Boot

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darkhooda

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Posted: June 22 2005,22:02

My other computer is really old and doesn't seem to support CD booting. Apparently, the BIOS is locked and the CD drive is currently not in the boot order. However, is there any way that I can use a floppy to boot up from the CD?

ke4nt1

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Posted: June 22 2005,22:09

Sure..

Download the bootfloppy.img from the repository.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....ppy.img

Write the image onto a fresh known good floppy disk.
( dd if=/path/to/bootfloppy.img of=/dev/fd0 )

Use your new floppy disk, in combination with the CD,
to boot up DSL on your system..

Search the forums using the search button if you need
more info, as there is a lot of data about floppy booting there.

73
ke4nt

chlump

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Posted: July 25 2005,17:11

Save target as - took me 2 firefox crashes to figure this..and yes after i used RAWWRITE to burn the floppy image i were able to easy boot from cd without any dos partition or xosl ~sbm boot.

Cheers

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