Re: debian install withouth cdrom boot

[amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk (Andrew M.A. Cater)]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:30:10PM -0500, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-24-01 at 18:57 +0100, Alessandro Pluchino wrote:
> > hi all,
> >  
> > i'm want to install debian on a very old system (pentium 1),but the
> > bios does not support cdrom boot.
> > how can i install debian ?
> 
sbm - the Smart Boot manager. Should be a way to write it to floppy disk
- rawrite of sbm.bin from cdrom [Net install disk under /install] should 
do the trick.

This contains a driver which will boot a machine and understands CD
drives.

> There should still be support for floppy disk installation. The Net
> Install CD should have floppy disk images on it for this purpose. They
> should be located in install/floppy/*.img
> 

Maybe not these days :(

HTH,

Andy
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