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Hello ubuntu users
* I*simply want to create boot floppy from 7.1 ubuntu could someone tell me an easy way to do this i have downloaded wrawrite for windows but which files to use. * Your help much appreciated * Thanks,bas -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users |
boot floppy
You need a boot floppy really? You're unable to boot from the cd?
/Pär 2007/12/30, basil hanna <basilhanna1@blueyonder.co.uk >: Hello ubuntu users * I*simply want to create boot floppy from 7.1 ubuntu could someone tell me an easy way to do this i have downloaded wrawrite for windows but which files to use. * Your help much appreciated * Thanks,bas -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users |
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Format floppy with “fdformatâ€
Â* #> fdformat /dev/fd0 Â* Then use “mkboot†program Â* #> mkboot –d /dev/fd0 Â* Cheers George Â* Â* 2007/12/30, basil hanna <basilhanna1@blueyonder.co.uk >: Hello ubuntu users Â* IÂ*simply want to create boot floppy from 7.1 ubuntu could someone tell me an easy way to do this i have downloaded wrawrite for windows but which files to use. Â* Your help much appreciated Â* Thanks,bas -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users Â* -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users |
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Hello Hanna, sorry for taking so long to reply, I've been away on a little trip. From what I understand from the link you provided, you should open a command prompt in windows, place yourself in the directory where you installed the rawwrite utility and type:
rawwrite -f d:installsbm.bin assuming your cd-rom is d: in windows. If it is something else, replace it with for example e: or g: or whatever. Maybe there could be an option in your bios where you might specify the boot order, ie which devices it should try booting from first. In some cases you are even able to specify and external cd-rom there. Might be worthwhile to check out. Hope this could be of some help Cheers Pär -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users |
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Just saw this other option:
On your working Ubuntu system, you can install sbm. To do this, you should open open System (from thetop panel) -> Administration -> synaptic package manager. Search for sbm, and install only the package named just 'sbm'. Then in a terminal type sbminst -d /dev/fd0 (assuming you have a formatted floppy in your floppy drive). Yes, I know that for some kinds of hardware, Linux is quite difficult to use. So, in some cases, Linux is still somewhat just for the geeks... /Pär 2008/1/7, Pär Lidén <par.liden@gmail.com>: Hello Hanna, sorry for taking so long to reply, I've been away on a little trip. From what I understand from the link you provided, you should open a command prompt in windows, place yourself in the directory where you installed the rawwrite utility and type: rawwrite -f d:installsbm.bin assuming your cd-rom is d: in windows. If it is something else, replace it with for example e: or g: or whatever. Maybe there could be an option in your bios where you might specify the boot order, ie which devices it should try booting from first. In some cases you are even able to specify and external cd-rom there. Might be worthwhile to check out. Hope this could be of some help Cheers Pär -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users |
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Hmm, a pity that it doesn't work for you. I'm afraid that the sbm program does not support usb then. This means that you will have a hard time installing Ubuntu on that computer I'm afraid.
One option is to create a complete linux boot-disk, and from that disk mount the installation cd as the root disk. If you download boot.img from here, you can try that. But it is a quite complicated method to do that. http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current//images/floppy/ Another solution I can think of is to install first Debian using their boot floppies. But I think After you have installed Debian, you may upgrade from Debian to Ubuntu by changing some config files.You can look here for information about installing Debian: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ Although this is easier than the first solution, it is still quite complicated. Do you have internet access at home via a router? Then you might try this, which is maybe the easiest way to install Debian, look at this page: http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst But you still have to do the config file trick to upgrade to Ubuntu after that. So, I'm afraid that installing Ubuntu on your computer is quite hard, actually. Debian, and probably Slackware and some others too, would be easier. And Debian is also a quite decent distribution. That is often the big obstacle for getting to use Linux for the home user, that it does not support all kinds of hardware, in my experience. On the other hand, Windows is probably not so easy to install from scratch from floppies either. Hope this could be of some help /Pär 2008/1/7, basil hanna <basilhanna1@blueyonder.co.uk>: Hello Par * I have managed to get the rawwrite to work and created the floppy from your instruction but when tried it on the laptop it booted up o.k and it can only recognizes the floppy or the hdd boot and it doesnt recognizes boot from usb or pcmcia, is there other utilities can be loaded from the live cd ? * Cheers,Basil. ----- Original Message ----- From: Pär Lidén To: basil hanna ; Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:23 AM Subject: Re: boot floppy Just saw this other option: On your working Ubuntu system, you can install sbm. To do this, you should open open System (from thetop panel) -> Administration -> synaptic package manager. Search for sbm, and install only the package named just 'sbm'. Then in a terminal type sbminst -d /dev/fd0 (assuming you have a formatted floppy in your floppy drive). Yes, I know that for some kinds of hardware, Linux is quite difficult to use. So, in some cases, Linux is still somewhat just for the geeks... /Pär 2008/1/7, Pär Lidén <par.liden@gmail.com>: Hello Hanna, sorry for taking so long to reply, I've been away on a little trip. From what I understand from the link you provided, you should open a command prompt in windows, place yourself in the directory where you installed the rawwrite utility and type: rawwrite -f d:installsbm.bin assuming your cd-rom is d: in windows. If it is something else, replace it with for example e: or g: or whatever. Maybe there could be an option in your bios where you might specify the boot order, ie which devices it should try booting from first. In some cases you are even able to specify and external cd-rom there. Might be worthwhile to check out. Hope this could be of some help Cheers Pär -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users |
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