Hi All,<br>Smart boot manager did the job, has a boot from CD option - Great!<br><br>Thanks for your help,<br><br>Nathan.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 07/03/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:gaukrogi@schaf.plus.com">
gaukrogi@schaf.plus.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:gaukrogi@schaf.plus.com">gaukrogi@schaf.plus.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:49:23PM +0000, Nathan Friend wrote:<br>> Hi all,<br>> I want to install a lightweight distro on my old Toshiba 500cdt laptop. The<br>> bios doesn't have a boot from CD option so I'm forced to use floppy disks to
<br>> get in.<br><br>> Any ideas?<br><br><a href="http://btmgr.webframe.org">btmgr.webframe.org</a> - Smart Boot Manager - Allows you to boot with a<br>floppy and then select the cdrom drive to boot from.<br><br>There are Linux and DOS friendly install downloads on the website though
<br>I tend to use the .bin file and rawrite as provided on disc 1 of the<br>Debian install CD's, but that's me :-).<br><br>I think, though I haven't done it myself, that you can put it on a<br>floppy and install it onto your harddrive. So if you can either have
<br>the floppy or the cdrom drive connected at any one time, you'll be able<br>to start with Smart Boot Manager from the harddrive and then boot with<br>the cdrom ... I think.<br><br><br>hth,<br><br>Ifor<br><br>_______________________________________________
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