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Generally, older PCs have BIOS that does not allow booting from a CD. That is usually a problem, since very few Linux distros they have today boot floppies that allow us to install the full operating system or at least enable the use of the CDROM drive, to be able to install the OS from there. |
In this sense, installing windows is easy having a Windows boot floppy and the drivers from the CD, but a Windows floppy won't work to boot Linux.
Luckily there is a generic solution called Smart Boot Manager that allows us to create bootable floppy disks to be able to install any operating system from the CD.
After downloading the program, put a floppy disk in the disk drive and execute the following command:
sbminst -t is -d 0 -b -u
Note: if you downloaded the file, you need to run this command from the folder where you saved it.
For detailed information on the parameters used, it is recommended to read the program documentation.
It is a good shame that I no longer use a floppy drive and the vast majority of old PCs don't work with the floppy drive and the CD reader, so it is to deny.
Nahh ... how can the floppy drive not work on old compus? Haha…
The problem is not if the computer still serves the floppy drive, but finding where to save the floppy, and even more, where you will get a floppy in the era of USB.
Of course, the geek who has kept a floppy disk for two or three years as a memory is not missing.
The floppy disks are very old I doubt that anyone has a machine like that hehehe
I still have dams !!!! but not floppy drive ...
Friends, I regret to inform you that there are many people who still have floppy drives. On the other hand, newer machines that don't have a floppy drive probably have a BIOS that boots from USB or CDROM.
Cheers! Paul.
Why put support only for Ubuntu ????
Could not at least put the Project website so that we, the users of other distros not based on Debian, can at least download the Source Code and compile and install it?
Thank you
Krafty, with all due respect I tell you: read the article well. It includes a link to the project page (the link is in the paragraph that begins by saying "Luckily ...". On the other hand, the yellow button sends you to the project's download page so that they can install it on other distros From there, they can download not only the source code but also binaries that work on any Linux distro.
When it comes to writing more about other distros, which I see is a recurring comment from you, I have no problem incorporating people who write about other distros and even other environments (KDE, etc.). The problem is that Debian and its derivatives are, by far, the most used and therefore the most information on demand, and very few are encouraged to write tutorials on other distros, environments, etc. The doors are open if you want to join the blog to write about Arch, Fedora or any other distro. I await your reply.
Cheers! Paul.
Heh, I was too hasty, I apologize.
It would be nice to belong to the group, but at the moment I am very busy.
What I could do is, you must from time to time, propose one or another topic, something that experience, in these 9 years of using Linux, has given me, 8 without having internet. heh
regards
Come on, great! You can write to us let's uselinux@gmail.com and propose a topic that you find interesting.
A big hug! Paul.
look, I have diskettes and floppy drives running.
But what do I tell you, that they are failing me often and there are already 2 of the 15 that I have that do not walk anymore, but for me, it is better to remove the hard disk, put it in another pc, install DSL, put it back in its place and corresponding machine) and voilá, you already have a pc with linux
Well, I still use it! haha! Of course sooo little! Is that I have an old machine (barely 18 years!: O) and it is useful to me, because it is the only one I have with an isa slot for a real modem, which I use as a caller ID and answering machine. Networked I use the callID on a newer machine to handle orders. And it's so good and stable that I don't dare to change. And that everything works without graphics mode!
The first floppy drives and diskettes (about 20 years ago) are an iron and continue to work; now the last mmm .. none.
The "es" in the command is for the Smart Boot Manager menus to be in Spanish, yes? And to put them in another language is it enough to replace it by "it", "uk", "pt", "whatever"?
Thanks for everything and forgive my horrible Spanish
That's right ... I think so. 🙂