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A suggestion for making it eaisier to put on hard drive....
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Byebillbye
Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 19 Location: New York |
There are lots of folks,myself included  who do not use floppy drives anymore.You could make the boot disk a bootable CD instead,or at least make it a file we could burn ourselves.Id love to install it,but cant without a floppy..........unless there are other suggestions?
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Rich
Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 278 Location: Middlesbrough - UK |
I don't use a boot diskette ........???? Live CD will boot directly from the CD image. The diskette is to compensate for BIOS deficiencies in older machines ( i.e. machines that can't boot from CD ) Most modern computers have a boot menu built into the bios. On switch on there will be a message saying something like 'Press F11 for boot menu' Boot diskettes aren't needed as standard, they are a fix for computers that can't boot the live CD. |
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PeterSieg
Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Germany, 37603 |
...that doesn't insist on creating a boot floppy, but also gives the possibility to install grub boot manager... No need for floppy drive anymore 
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Auda
Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 131 Location: New Zealand ( Christchurchish ) |
SBM is a boot manager that will boot from a cd even if the bios wont I use it the web site is here http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3?body=download.html I did find a later version some were, I'll attach it later when I find it again Auda |
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wscarl
Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 99 Location: NY |
HD install "text" Script need's rewrite  reads like a GW Bush speech 
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Have you tried to use the GRUB configuration? The option may be in the Grub is a bootloader that you can use if you have a hard disk install. I personally haven't used this, as I removed the boot floppy section from Barry's install script and installed the LiLo bootloader myself (I don't have a floppy drive, either). I suggest you try the Grub configuration. If you don't have success, post back here, and I'm sure someone could explain it for you. Otherwise, I'll send you the script I used. Cheers, thoughtjourney ------------------- yes, i forgot to log in again |
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