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Bios Doesn't Support Boot From Cd How to boot from floppy?

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Posted 19 July 2007 - 08:04 AM

I'm trying to run SLAX Frodo on this really old laptop with a floppy drive and a CD drive, but the BIOS only supports boot from hard disk and floppy. Is there any way i can make a floppy that boots and tells the computer to boot from CD?

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Posted 19 July 2007 - 08:13 AM

Make a boot floppy with boot.img or boot-fd.img from the cd istself, then boot with both floppy and cd in, it should automatically recognize the cd.

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Posted 07 August 2007 - 04:03 AM

View Postmadman6510, on Jul 19 2007, 02:04 PM, said:

I'm trying to run SLAX Frodo on this really old laptop with a floppy drive and a CD drive, but the BIOS only supports boot from hard disk and floppy. Is there any way i can make a floppy that boots and tells the computer to boot from CD?



Yup, that's a way to do it. Pobably the easiest as well.
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