[Gllug] Installing on an older machine

[James Roberts]

Chris Bell wrote:
>    Debian Lenny is unable to boot from its own floppy because the latest
> kernel is too big, and I have a box which will only attempt to boot from
> floppy or a SCSI disc containing a crashed copy of M$. There is a SCSI CD
> but it is not found. Should it be possible to write GRUB or GRUB2 to a
> floppy, giving enough information to then boot from an installation CD?

Would this help?

http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm

Got me out of difficulties on occasion...

MeJ
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