I have installed two old laptops that way, you can get the floppy images here:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/rc2/images/floppy/ It requires 3 floppies (boot,root and cdrom drivers) and the cd's . It is prety self explanantory but if you need help just ask. On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:06:33 -0800 Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:55:47PM -0500, jeremy pedersen wrote: > > I have an old laptop that does not have BIOS support for booting from cd. I > > am wondering, is there some way to create a boot floppy that can be used to > > find my CD drive, so that I can boot the debian installation from CDs? > > Might try: > > http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ > > -- > Bill Moseley > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --------------------------------------------- Loren A. Linden Levy 481 Loomis, Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801-3080 Tel: 217-244-7995 Fax: 217-333-1215 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://w3.physics.uiuc.edu/~lindenle/ _____________________________________________ --------------------------------------------- This email has been cryptographically signed. Search for "lindenle" at pgp.mit.edu to obtain my public key which can be used to verify the authenticity of this message. _____________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------
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