[ale] Old Silicon, New Distros

[james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)]

Can you not boot from diskette and then install over the network?

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:14 PM, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> ALErs -
>
>  I am upgrading a box that won't boot from a CD-ROM (even though the BIOS
>  boot-order claims to include a CD-ROM-first setting). It looks like the
>  viable option is 3.5" FDD.
>
>  I'm leaning toward Slackware, but it appears Slack-12.0 doesn't include
>  the older 'bare' FD images, but now includes an 'sbootmgr.dsk' that sounds
>  like just the thing. If I understand, it's a small first-level bootloader
>  that fits easily on a 3.5" FD and can be commanded to then boot the box
>  from a CD drive.
>
>  Questions:
>   1. Are the FD image 'boot' ('bare.i', etc) and 'root' ('install[1|2].*')
>  disk images still included in Slack-12.0, and if so, where?
>
>   2. Has anyone used 'sbootmgr', and have I understood what it's intended
>  to do?
>
>   3. Is 'sbootmgr' Slackware specific, or could it be used to jump-start
>  installation of other current distros when one can't boot directly from a
>  CD (or DVD)?
>
>  Thanks for any wisdom on these issues.
>
>   - John Mills
>
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