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 > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Mead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 29 August, 2001 02:11 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Old BIOS does not support booting from cdrom > > > 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 > running. I would go and get the floppy images but I only > have one floppy left. > > TIA > > Ken Mead > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
