Question:
I'm sorry for continually bothering you........
Hi all great and knoledgeably Linux people,
As a noob, I am dedicated to asking questions and explaining my situation. Right so I decided I wanted to run Linux off a floppy as I can't boot from my CD-ROM drive and all these creating a floppy boot disk thing is way to complicated.
So I downloaded Hal91 from
http://chris.silmor.de/hal91/
and I used the program to sort out the image. (by the way the thing that the page says about typing some stuff at the command line is utter nonesense - do what the program tells you when you run it - not what the it tells you to do on the website because it doesn't work).
So on my computer I set the BIOS to boot from a floppy and when I insert the floppy disk and reboot all I get is a black screen with the white cursor flashing repeatedly in that annoying fashion - you know how it does).
Basically as I said I'm a noob with Linux so I need someone to please take me SLOWLY through the installation process and if there is something better than Hal91 that I should be using.
Many, many thanks,
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Re: I'm sorry for continually bothering you........
Hal91 seems to be discontinued.
This may not answer your question, but you can have a look at these floppy distros: http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=links#floppy
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Re: I'm sorry for continually bothering you........
Debian also has a bootstrap-from-floppy distribution. See here for details.
Schwab
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Re: I'm sorry for continually bothering you........
OK thanks.
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Re: I'm sorry for continually bothering you........
I've given you both rep.