Re: Old BIOS does not support booting from cdrom

2001-08-29 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:11:10PM -0400, 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

RE: Old BIOS does not support booting from cdrom

2001-08-29 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
If you have the Official CD's in hand and you CD-ROM drivers for DOS; you can boot the CD manually. On the Official CD's in the dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-2001-04-15/ directory there is an install.bat file that will use loadlin to boot up the install process. HTH, Brooks > -Origin