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
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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 ?
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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
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