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Hello I have a laptop running NT and I want to wipe it out and put some kind of small linux on it (i.e. minimalistic slackware). The problem is that ...
  1. 10-10-2005 #1
    be244
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    Scsi cdrom / need bootdisk



    Hello

    I have a laptop running NT and I want to wipe it out and put some kind of small linux on it (i.e. minimalistic slackware). The problem is that the scsi cdrom is not bootable so I need a floppy disk to be able to install from the cd drive. I tried to copy the bootdisk and rootdisk *.img's (from vector linux iso) to floppies , but it doesn't recognize scsi. Thank you for any help!

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    You may need to get the correct driver for the CDROM on a floppy and then do modprobe after the boot and root disks. Worked for me on a non-booting drive on a 486.
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    Put SBM on a floppy ant try to choose the CDROM drive frome it.
    SBM: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html
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  4. 10-11-2005 #4
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    It doesn't say that it works with SCSI, but I'll give it a try... (SBM)

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