On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:16, rob wrote: > Greetings, > Some time ago, someone on the list recommended Toms RTBT disk for > gaining CD ROM access via a floppy boot for installing Linux on a > machine that won't boot from CD ROM.
You are not telling us the Distribution you are trying to install from CD. Try the 2 floppy set called BG-Rescue. http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~giannone/rescue/current/ Supported Hardware: Block Devices: IDE/ATAPI Disk/CD-Rom/Floppy/Tape Support Normal Floppy Disk Support Compaq SMART2 / Smart Array 5xxx Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI Raid Controller Software RAID-0/1/4/5/Linear and LVM Support Loopback device Compressed Loop Image (cloop) USB Mass Storage support (with PocketBoy patch) You will then have to copy the bootable image file(s) off the CD on to floppies and then use those to boot the machine. Also BG-Rescue implements the chroot command correctly ( Tom's rtbt doesn't ) > Any advice as to where I am going wrong would be valuable. WADR, a bit of private reading would not go amiss. man man man apropos http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/rute-home.html http://www.tldp.org/ If you use Konqueror you can put a '#' in the location bar to access the Linux documentation manual system. ( two #s '##' will get you the FSF info system )
