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From: Scott Moynes <smoynes@nexus.carleton.ca>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Boot Floppy for CD?
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:54:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020618115402.GA11123@marilyn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OE51WOyhYOXL4ag4XFM0000961a@hotmail.com>

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* DerKlempner (derklempner@hotmail.com) wrote:
> I have an older machine that I wish to install Gentoo Linux on, but
> its BIOS does not support booting from the CD-ROM drive.  How can I
> make a boot floppy for the install?  Currently, there is no
> operating system on the hard drive in the system, so I cannot access
> the CD from that computer.

Just about any boot floppy will do, so long as it has drivers for your
network card, and chroot. I haven't tried it yet, but I bet Tom's rtbt
http://www.toms.net/rb/ will work.
-- 
Scott Moynes

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-18 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-18  3:59 [gentoo-dev] Boot Floppy for CD? DerKlempner
2002-06-18 11:54 ` Scott Moynes [this message]
2002-06-18 12:34   ` fthieme
2002-06-18 22:45     ` Scott Moynes
2002-06-19  7:19       ` fthieme
2002-06-20 17:40         ` mbutcher
2002-06-22  8:14           ` Frank Thieme
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2002-06-19 10:26 Einar Örn Eiðsson

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