"Donald R. Spoon" wrote: > > Ken Mead wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was given on old P166 and want to put Debian on it however the old BIOS > > does not support bootable cd's. Can someone please point/help me make a > > floppy disk that will allow me to boot my debian cd so I can get this box > > running. I would go and get the floppy images but I only > > have one floppy left. > > > > TIA > > > > Ken Mead >
You can get up an running with Smart Boot Manager. You can create a boot disk which allows you to choose the device from which to actually boot your machine. This includes booting from CDROM when the BIOS does not support it. It is trivial to install and compile. http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3 Thomas R. Shemanske (Mailing Address) (Office/Internet Information) Department of Mathematics 203 Choate House 6188 Bradley Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dartmouth College http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~trs/ Hanover, NH 03755-3551 (603) 646 - 3179 Directions: http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~trs/choatehouse.html Office hours: http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~trs/frontmatter/office.html Spring Term Office Hours: By appointment