Boot from Floppy

I have an old FJ B2131 that will only boot from FDD or HDD, and would like to try Linux. Having stumbled across Puppy, what I have seen of it so far, it looks great! I have managed to download V1 and have modified my DOS boot disc to load V1 Puppy from the CDRom (connected via PCMCIA).

Two Questions:

1. How do I get the Pup_410.sfs off the distro and get it to run under dos, or is there some other way of acheiving the same thing. I need to start from DOS (I think) to get the PCMCIA driver loaded to recognise the CDRom.

2. Assuming I achieve the above, how do I get Puppy to load onto my HDD, which currently has Windows 98.

Any help of pointers greatfully received, as I'm new to Linux! 

 

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Wed, 10/22/2008 - 10:44 — J-Bob

hope this helps

if you have another computer with a floppy drive that can boot from cd. you should go into the package manager and install wakepup2. then reset jwm, and search for the entry in the setup menu (i think that's where it is), it should say make wakepup floppy, or something simmilar.

then load in a floppy disk and use that as your new wakepup floppy.

and to run it off the hard drive, just click the installer entry in the setup menu, and i think the setup button can also run the installer.

then just followit and you should be off and running.

i reccomend using a frugal install.

- J-Bob 

Thu, 10/23/2008 - 20:00 — kgns

Thanks!

Thanks for this. Will have a go.

Regards, Keith.