Boot disk ?

John Levin john at technolalia.org
Tue Oct 5 15:07:02 UTC 2004


On 4 Oct 2004, at 21:54, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 06:21:23PM +0200, Peter Hoffmann wrote:
>>
>> Try Smart Boot Manager:
>>  * http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm
>>  * http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3?body=download.html
>>
>> "This nifty little floppy bootdisk allows selecting various devices to
>> boot from a menu, and even allows booting a CD-ROM in machines where 
>> the
>> BIOS doesn't support it. If your BIOS supposedly supports booting 
>> from a
>> CD-ROM but it isn't working, this disk might be just what you need!"
>
> Would someone mind writing up a short howto describing how to use sbm 
> to
> install on a system without netboot or CD boot capability?  Others have
> asked the same question before.
>

Is anyone taking this on? I'll do it, but want to check that no-one 
else is beavering away right now. Duplication of effort, etc.

John






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