[Klug-general] Laptop Linux

[Nathan Friend]

Hi all,
I want to install a lightweight distro on my old Toshiba 500cdt laptop.  The
bios doesn't have a boot from CD option so I'm forced to use floppy disks to
get in.

I've got another PC running SUSE, so I've had a go at making boot & root
disks for vector Linux

>From the Vector documentation...

dd if=diskimagename.img of=/dev/fd0

This worked fine and the floppy boots the PC, but wont boot the laptop, just
get [VECTOR LINUX] BOOT FAILED.

The laptop has an external floppy so maybe it's a non-standard interface, it
just annoying as old dos disks boot no problem!

Any ideas?

Nathan.
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