Selecting 2.4 Kernel on Boot Floppy Debian Install

[Leo J Mauler]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 09:59:15 -0600 Charles Steinkuehler
<charles at steinkuehler.net> writes:
> Leo J Mauler wrote:
> > I am installing Debian on my Laptop, which does not 
> > boot from CD.   I would like to boot from floppies, 
> > then use the built-in 4x CDROM as the installation 
> > media.  The 4x CDROM works rather well 
> > considering its age.
> 
> You might try using the Smart Boot Manager (sbm.bin 
> in the install directory of CD1 on my 3.0 r1 CD set).  
> From the sbm README:
> 
> What's the use of SBM on the CD then ?
> 
>    SBM includes an IDE driver that allows us to boot 
> the cds even on  machines with a BIOS that wouldn't 
> support booting from CD, provided our CDROM is 
> an IDE one, that is, so you can make a SBM floppy 
> and boot from it and then tell it to boot from your 
> CDROM.
> 
>    Also, there are some cases where the BIOS would 
> allow booting from the CD but isolinux fails to boot 
> from there, in this case you can either boot using a CD 
> other than the first, as the others don't use isolinux, or 
> you can make a SBM floppy and boot from this floppy 
> and then tell SBM to boot your CDROM.

If SBM isn't on the Debian 3.0_r0 CD set, would booting from a SBM floppy
found on the Debian 3.0_r2 CD Set still allow booting of a CD from the
3.0_r0 set?

Sorry, I'm not feeling very competent with computers right now.  Half my
home network's computers just fell off the network for what seems to be
the reason that both 8-port switches and four network cards suddenly
failed *simultaneously*.  One of the network cards was my only PCMCIA
laptop network card <sigh>.

> > Someone said on this list that to use the 2.4 kernel 
> > one put in "bf2.4" at the boot prompt.  When I do 
> > this it states "Could not find bf2.4 kernel".  I've even 
> > tried swapping out floppies at the boot prompt, 
> > putting in the "bf24.bin" floppy and then typing 
> > "bf2.4".  I get the same message when the "bf24.bin" 
> > floppy is sitting in the floppy drive.
> 
> I'm not sure the documentation has kept up with the 
> current state of things.  To install using bf2.4, I booted 
> off CD5 of the 3.0r1 CD set.

I'm currently installing Debian 3.0_r0 on a Duron machine and CD5 boots
just fine with the 2.4 kernel.

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