That's not quite the simplest way. Simplest is to use any machine with a net connection to (a) download Smart boot Manager - you need SBMINST.EXE on a Windows machine and sbminst on Linux (b) run sbminst to make an SBM boot floppy - running it without parameters will give you a list of commandline options to use (c) boot your floppy-only machine with the SBM floppy (d) at the SBM screen, use the arrow keys to highlight your hard disk and use the menu to do "Install SBM" (e) shutdown, fit CD drive, power on (f) wait for the SBM screen to come up, press a key to stop the countdown and insert the Puppy CD (g) do Ctrl-I to rescan and then select the CD to boot from it.pminmo wrote:Relooking at it, this is my plan:
1. put sbminst.exe on a floppy
2. bring up dos and start sbminst (a:sbminst.exe -t us -d 128) on the HD
Hopefully then I will be able to switch the floppy out and put in the cd drive, and be able to boot a live cd such as Puppy or Gparted?
I don't know about the "128" in your commandline above, I haven't used SBM from Windows or DOS, but the floppy is normally "A:" isn't it?
Under Linux you would do
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sbminst -t us -d /dev/fd0
Mark