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Title: load esmith from floppy??????
Post by: alan on September 01, 2003, 11:28:42 PM

I have a system that doesn't boot from CD. So i set up the hard drive on a p4 system and installed esmith and made a boot floppy. However when i put the hard drive back into the P1 system Linux crashes. Is there a way to install esmith without booting from a cd.???????

Title: Re: load esmith from floppy??????
Post by: Walter Padgett on September 02, 2003, 03:34:04 AM

Good Evening,

Read this: http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/Boot_floppy_howto.php3 Found it in two clicks off of the e-smith.org website.

Later

Wally

Title: Re: load esmith from floppy??????
Post by: alan on September 02, 2003, 04:40:04 AM

Thnaks but i need to know how to install esmith from a floppy and non bootable cd

Title: Re: load esmith from floppy??????
Post by: Walter Padgett on September 02, 2003, 05:03:14 AM

Good Evening,

So I'm assuming that you want 275+ floppy diskettes? Every E-Smith/SME ISO since 4.x that I've ever burned has been a bootable CD without a choice. Follow the instructions that I gave you and set your CMOS/BIOS to boot off the floppy. There isn't a "non-bootable" CD that I know of.

Later

Wally

Title: Re: load esmith from floppy??????
Post by: alan on September 02, 2003, 05:15:12 AM

Thanks i bootred off the floppy and am installing from the non bootable Cd. The Cmos does not allow booting.
Thanks it worked

Title: Re: load esmith from floppy??????
Post by: Krusty on September 02, 2003, 09:12:54 AM

Isnt this what rawwrite was designed for??????