Re: Floppies?

[Walter Venable <weaseal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sarunas V. wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 04:38:47 -0400, user wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I have a machine that requires floppies to boot (to install from CD).
> > However, this system actually has 1.0-CURRENT installed (around July
> > 1st).  Is there a way to run the installer from CD after the system has
> > booted, since there appear to be no floppies available?  Thanks,
>
>
> I'm not fully sure where the installer is located in a CD, but I'm pretty
> sure that you can.
>
> There are another two ways in which you can lunch the installer:
>
> 1. Go to your BIOS, and set your first boot device to cdrom. With some
>    BIOS'es you even don't have to do that, you can just  press F11 as for
>    my BIOS, your one may vary.
>
> 2. If your BIOS doesn't support booting from cdrom, you can download
>
> ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-10.0/rootdisks/sbootmgr.dsk
>    
>    Then "#dd if=sbootmgr.dsk of=/dev/fd0" to add it to floppy. Reboot the
>    machine, insert the floppy so it can be read of and loaded after POST.
>    Choose the option to boot from CD-ROM, dfly will be loaded from a CD,
>    then install it.
>
> Hope that helps,
>  
> Kind Regards,

Unfortunately the boot-from-CD is not an option.  The system doesn't 
support it.  Too old.

The Slackware boot disk didn't seem to help.  When I told it to use the 
CDRom drive, it just said "Disk error 0x01."  The CD was in the drive.

I can't seem to locate how to activate the installer after having 
mounted the CD-rom. Any hints?

Thanks,
Walter Venable