[RULE] Booting from CD when not supported by BIOS

[C David Rigby]

Many of us are using older hardware that does not support booting from a
CD, requiring the use of (possibly numerous) floppies.  An interesting
project that I have used in the past that has been helpful is the
Smartboot Manager by James Su, and details are available here:

http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/

The image is also available as part of the Slackware 9.0 distribution,
available, for example, here (or in a similar location on another
mirror):

http://www.slackware.at/data/slackware-9.0/isolinux/sbootmgr/

I have not tried it use it with the slinky iso yet, though I expect to
do so shortly.  However, it boots the Slackware 9.0 CD just fine on one
of my older portables that does not support booting from CD.  The CD
must be bootable, of course.

Regards,
C David Rigby
cdrigby at 9online.fr



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