[H-GEN] Debian floppies for Saturday

[Marco Grigull]

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On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 05:56:22 +1000
"Paul Clarke" <paul at qfm.org.au> wrote:

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> Hi all,
> 
> Has anyone got Debian on floppies that they can bring to the meeting
> this Saturday?
> 
> I have an old Compac box that I want to set up with Debian but:
> - It has no CD-ROM and I can't find the key combination to get to bios
> tell it it has a CD anyway

Smart Boot Manager runs off a floppy, and can sometimes boot cdroms in
 systems that dont even have el'torito support.  Although sbm only uses
 the first few sectors on a floppy, it will render the rest of the disk
 useless.....   

I have successfully ussed this on a pci 486 system w/ american megatrends
 bios, where the bios itself does not even know about cdrom drives

Good luck

Marco

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