On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 07:36:33PM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote: > Hi list, > > I want to make a floppy disk bootable, and to automatically boot a > (Linux) live CD when it is booted. You may dictate the filesystem of > the floppy (as long as it is something that can be mounted later by the > live CD; the floppy contains a tiny file with some definitions for the > CD, like IP/subnet/defaultrouter/DNS in case there is no DHCP server). > > If you are curious to know the need, this serves 3 purposes: > > 1. When it's impossible to change the boot priority of the BIOS, and we > are not going to be near the PC whenever it reboots, so we can't > take out the floppy. > 2. When the CD drive is connected to the PC through an interface which > is not supported by the BIOS, like USB (a usual problem of laptops, > even modern ones, when there is a special drive for booting, but the > laptop is usually sold with another CD, lighter one, and with more > features - like burning, DVD, etc.). > 3. To save time if we forgot to take out the floppy before booting. > > When googling, I found many solutions, like BootMaster, and wondered if > any of you has experienced one of them and can recommend. > > I want this "boot redirector" to support USB, of course. > > Thanks, > -- > Eli Marmor > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. > __________________________________________________________ > Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. > Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 > Mobile: +972-50-5237338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Eli, I have a floppy which I use for this purpose with old computers that are unable to boot from CDs. Upon power up it offers a menu, one of the options of which is to boot from the CD. I see on its label, on my own handwriting "sbm.bin Debian 3.0". I guess this means that I found this utility on the Debian 3.0 install disk(I just cannot remember just now, but if you think that it might be useful, I shall try to trace that back). No idea if it supports USB: I use it with old hardware from before the USB era. Cheers, Avraham
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