Bios does not support boot from cd

[David A. De Graaf]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 11:14:45AM +0100, Sander Hartveld wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>     I have a old pentium 133 Mhz with 80MB Ram wich does not support boot
> from
>     cdrom. I do have a floppy drive  , a non bootable CD-rom drive and 2 GB
> hard
>     drive. How to start my installation now?
>     I do have redhat 9 installed.
> Thanks and cheers, Sander

If you can boot from a floppy and read, but not boot, from a CD,
here's the method that worked for me:

Download "Generic Linux Boot Floppy" from www.deesconsulting.com/glbf
and copy it to a floppy:
    dd if=glbf-0.3.1-ide.img of=/dev/fd0

Then boot from this floppy, which will read the first installation CD
and transfer control to it.  Proceed with a normal installation.

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