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Re: [LUG] A debian diary



On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:15:28 +0000
Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Guys

Got the box and I'm ready to load up Debian. But it won't boot off the 
cd rom so I need a floppy disk boot disk. Unfortunately I only have a 
Mac! No floppy drive. Would somebody create me a boot disk and send it 
to me. I have the ISO and will burn this to cd rom. I presume that as I 
am booting of floppy I don't need this to be bootable just accessable?

The other thing is, the computer doesn't have a network card. Does 
anybody have an old network card that I could have or buy?

I'll cover postage and costs in both cases.

Thanks

Rich

It won't boot from the CD?  Any reason?  Non-supported drive (eg non-bootable scsi 
controller)?

If you use SmartBootManager (sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr), then you will only 
need the CD drive to be accessible.
If you plan to use the Debian boot floppies, then you will need 2 floppies - a boot 
and a root disk.

Grant.
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