Re: Installing on old machine

From: Solar Designer (solar@private)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 23:46:16 PST


On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 05:38:48AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > Stephan Lagerholm wrote:
> 
> > > 3. The boot floppy don't give the cdrom as an option to boot from. Have I
> > >    missed something here?
> 
> A guess.  Should another boot-image be inside cd-rom?  I.e., when ISO gets
> created, something should be placed into it's boot area -- something that
> is sutable for booting off the cdrom, yes (El-torio boot ext)?  So such an
> image should be available somewhere, and if one writes it to a floppy...

That is the only floppy image available there, and its use for when CD
booting isn't directly supported is in fact documented for Owl.

That's the way to go.

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/sd



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