Re: Debian on i486

[Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Leonid Grinberg wrote:
> I have tried installing Debian and ran into some problems.
>
> The machine has both a floppy drive and a CD drive, but the BIOS does
> not recognize the CD drive as a drive, and does not allow me to boot
> off of it, let alone USB. That leaves only floppies. I burned boot.img

I use Smart Boot Manager on a machine very like the one you describe
to boot and run Linux (DSL version, Debian based). Works great.

http://btmgr.webframe.org/

[snip]

Mike
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