boot floppy

[Pär Lidén]

Hmm, a pity that it doesn't work for you. I'm afraid that the sbm program
does not support usb then. This means that you will have a hard time
installing Ubuntu on that computer I'm afraid.

One option is to create a complete linux boot-disk, and from that disk mount
the installation cd as the root disk. If you download boot.img from here,
you can try that. But it is a quite complicated method to do that.
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current//images/floppy/

Another solution I can think of is to install first Debian using their boot
floppies. But I think After you have installed Debian, you may upgrade from
Debian to Ubuntu by changing some config files.You can look here for
information about installing Debian:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/
Although this is easier than the first solution, it is still quite
complicated.

Do you have internet access at home via a router? Then you might try this,
which is maybe the easiest way to install Debian, look at this page:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
But you still have to do the config file trick to upgrade to Ubuntu after
that.

So, I'm afraid that installing Ubuntu on your computer is quite hard,
actually. Debian, and probably Slackware and some others too, would be
easier. And Debian is also a quite decent distribution. That is often the
big obstacle for getting to use Linux for the home user, that it does not
support all kinds of hardware, in my experience. On the other hand, Windows
is probably not so easy to install from scratch from floppies either.

Hope this could be of some help
/Pär


2008/1/7, basil hanna <basilhanna1 at blueyonder.co.uk>:
>
>  Hello Par
>
> I have managed to get the rawwrite to work and created the floppy from
> your instruction but when tried it on the laptop it booted up o.k and it
> can only recognizes the floppy or the hdd boot and it doesnt recognizes boot
> from usb or pcmcia, is there other utilities can be loaded from the live cd
> ?
>
> Cheers,Basil.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Pär Lidén <par.liden at gmail.com>
> *To:* basil hanna <basilhanna1 at blueyonder.co.uk> ; Ubuntu user technical
> support, not for general discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, January 07, 2008 11:23 AM
> *Subject:* Re: boot floppy
>
> Just saw this other option:
> On your working Ubuntu system, you can install sbm. To do this, you should
> open open System (from thetop panel) -> Administration -> synaptic package
> manager. Search for sbm, and install only the package named just 'sbm'. Then
> in a terminal type
> sbminst -d /dev/fd0 (assuming you have a formatted floppy in your floppy
> drive).
>
> Yes, I know that for some kinds of hardware, Linux is quite difficult to
> use. So, in some cases, Linux is still somewhat just for the geeks...
>
> /Pär
>
>
> 2008/1/7, Pär Lidén <par.liden at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hello Hanna, sorry for taking so long to reply, I've been away on a
> > little trip. From what I understand from the link you provided, you should
> > open a command prompt in windows, place yourself in the directory where you
> > installed the rawwrite utility and type:
> >
> > rawwrite -f d:\install\sbm.bin
> >
> > assuming your cd-rom is d: in windows. If it is something else, replace
> > it with for example e: or g: or whatever.
> >
> > Maybe there could be an option in your bios where you might specify the
> > boot order, ie which devices it should try booting from first. In some cases
> > you are even able to specify and external cd-rom there. Might be worthwhile
> > to check out.
> >
> > Hope this could be of some help
> >
> > Cheers
> > Pär
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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