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Title: Install sme 5.6 from floppy?
Post by: Robert Schutz on February 05, 2003, 10:35:37 PM

I'm running sme 5.5 on an old computer that does not allow me set boot order. It boots from floppy then hard drive, no option to boot from cd.

I want to upgrade to sme 5.6. Any suggestions on how todo this.

Thanks in advance.
Robert

Title: Re: Install sme 5.6 from floppy?
Post by: Robert on February 05, 2003, 11:10:16 PM

Hi Robert,
My suggestion is to read the manual. It contains the answer to your question and other useful information.
Regards,
Robert

Title: Re: Install sme 5.6 from floppy?
Post by: Robert on February 05, 2003, 11:29:48 PM

OK, I believe the manual is not very clear on this. What you need to do is write a boot floppy image to a floppy. The image should be on the CD-ROM in the 'images' directory. I think it's called boot.img. On DOS you can use the rawrite utility to make the boot floppy. On Linux you can use dd.

Title: Re: Install sme 5.6 from floppy?
Post by: Bill Talcott on February 05, 2003, 11:41:53 PM

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/Boot_floppy_howto.php3