Wakepup won't work, can't download boot2pup

[ChazZTheSpazZ]

I tried writing wakepup to 3 different disks and testing them, none worked. I can't download boot2pup either because when i try, it'll open up right in firefox and show a bunch of lines of gibberish. I also tried it in IE but with the same results. Any suggestion or alternative? The old comp. i'm working with won't boot from a cd but will from a floppy. Also, what exact files need to be on a hard drive to boot from it instead of the live-cd, in case i can't get the floppy to work. Thanks for any help I can get.

[muggins]

why not try using smart boot manager floppy to boot your cd instead. i've had 100% success with it booting cd's, regardless of the bios.

see these links:-

http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm

http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=4038

the files you need on your hard disk are vmlinuz, image.gz & usr_cram.sfs, which you need to extract from the .iso file using something like isobuster, if your other machine is a windows, or something like:

mkdir /mnt/iso
mount -o loop /puppy.iso /mnt/iso

with linux. (of course you have to use correct name & location of the puppy iso file!).

[Guest]

In case you want to go the route of using a CD, there is also a floppy program to make a CD bootable available from
http://bootcd.narod.ru/. Don't be put off by the Russian text, download the program named bcdl150z.zip.
Has worked without fail for me on more than onel old system.

[me again as a guest]

In clarification of the previous post. The program makes it possible to boot from a CD-ROM drive, even though CD-ROM boot is not supported by the BIOS.
The previous post may have given the impression that the program changes the CD media - it does not.

[GuestToo]

I can't download boot2pup either because when i try, it'll open up right in firefox and show a bunch of lines of gibberish

this is because the server is mis-configured and thinks that .gz files are text files

just right click the link and click Save Link As

or download a zipped version ... see:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=232#232

[ChazZTheSpazZ]

I have the boot manager on a disk and it works. Now, how do i use it? There's also another snag i've run into. In my inexperienced blundering with settings, somehow I changed my bios settings so that the cd rom is now not even recognized. I have not a clue as to what settings are required for it to function oncemore.

[Delboy]

Chazz:
Bios: Shut down machine. Press start button and immediately after press the function button (particular to your machine) to enter the bios. This could be 'delete', 'f2', 'Esc' - whatever your manual instructs.
Bios settings are normally on a cyclical setting so if you navigate down with tab and arrow buttons you can select by pressing the select (<-+>) until the desired CDrom setting reappears. They haven't been deleted.
Boot sequence: 'FDD' first 'CDRom' second and HDD third.

[ChazZTheSpazZ]

It doesn't have a cd-rom setting. It asks for cylinders and other values. I tried resetting to default but the cd-rom settings aren't in default. I have a feeling i'm not gonna ever get around to actually installing puppy on it.