Floppies

[James Cox]

I think he means he has a CD-ROM drive, but the PC won't boot from it.  If that's the case, you can use Smartboot Manager, which you can use to create a floppy that boots up and allows you to boot from any HD partition or CD-ROM.

 
On Friday, December 03, 2004, at 09:30AM, Jongilanga Guma <jongi at nitric.co.za> wrote:

>Any one living in cape town who has ubuntu-ppc?
>On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 16:28 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 03:59:45PM +0000, Richard Brown wrote:
>> > Just signed up and all set to download and run Ubuntu. But (there is 
>> > always a but), slight problem. I own a G4 Powerbook with no floppy 
>> > drive and the PC box I've just been given has no operating system on 
>> > and only boots to HD or Floppy. So does anybody own a floppy boot disk 
>> > that will enable Ubuntu to install? I am happy to pay postage, cost of 
>> > disk etc... I live in Cornwall, England.
>> 
>> (This is better on our ubuntu-users@ list, so moving it there.)
>> 
>> Unfortunately we don't support floppy installs at the moment. It's a
>> goal for Hoary, but I've been having trouble fitting the necessary bits
>> onto floppies, so I have nothing to offer you just yet.
>> 
>> Is it possible to take the PC's hard disk out, put it temporarily into
>> another computer, and install it there?
>> 
>> Otherwise, I'd suggest installing Debian 3.0 (booting from floppies and
>> getting the base system from the network, if you can) and upgrading from
>> there.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> -- 
>> Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]
>> 
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