floppy boot disk so the CD boots

[solrpwr]

Does any one know of a floppy boot disk iso that will enable the cd rom
drive to act as a boot disk? My old laptop will not boot from the cd rom
drive. I went into the bios and tried to make it boot from the cd rom drive,
but it isn't possible. I want to install damn small linux.

Thanks in advance for your response.

P.s. thanks to everyone that responded last night!

[Tauno Voipio]

Check if there are installation boot disk images on the
CD. Most distros have them together with the rawrite
utility which can copy the disk images to floppies
under Windows.

A bootable CD is shown under BIOS as a replacement
diskette with 1.44 Mbyte or 2.88 Mbyte size. If
it is the small one, it might be possible to be
used for booting. A 2.88 Mbyte image is more difficult:
it is larger then most floppy drives are ready to handle.

For details, Google for 'El Torito Specification'.

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Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

[mjt]

("solrpwr" <sol...@yahoo.com>) scribbled:

> Does any one know of a floppy boot disk iso that will enable the cd rom
> drive to act as a boot disk? My old laptop will not boot from the cd rom
> drive. I went into the bios and tried to make it boot from the cd rom drive,
> but it isn't possible. I want to install damn small linux.

... depends on the distro - some offer floppy boot images.

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