On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:42 pm, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > I would be surprised if that old machine could *boot a cdrom*. Have > > > > you tried *that*? > > > > ;-0 > > It can't boot from cdrom, it has one (4X) but the system doesn't know of > it untill an OS is loaded (i.e. win98se). I'm forced to install linux with > floppy disks.
Try using this: From Debian-boot mailing list: Smart Boot Manager (http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/) can be started from floppy and allows some older computers to boot from CD. That's how I loaded my firewall/router machine with Sarge. Might be worth a try. --Don John