[nmglug] P133

[Anthony Martinez]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 02:22:45PM -0600, Jason Davis 
carved this out of pure phosphors:
> On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 13:36 -0600, a_kaluta wrote:
> > Dear Glug Members;
> > I tried loading "potato" on the,  aforesead-mentioned, computer both before 
> > and after I changed to "boot from CD"...with no luck.
> > Internet research suggested booting from floppy disk.
> > which evokes a whole new set of problems for this novice.
> > Is the suggestion to boot from floppy disk because the disk may be written 
> > to a "fat" files system?
> > Is  the floppy a good direction ,Lac tutorial mentioned Suse 9 recovery disk 
> > alas a quick perusal of the site did not reveal its location, would persuit 
> > and location of the recovery disk be a better focus.
> >  Any shared thoughts Cabelleros.
> >                                             Thanks Anthony Kaluta 
> 

Some BIOSes cannot boot from CD. In these occasions, I use btmgr which can
magically boot CDs.

http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/3.7/

grab sbminst.static, chmod a+x it, and stick in a floppy.

> Good Luck, jd
> 
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