since ASL doesn`t support installation via floppy disk anymore, this is a problem when you want install ASL on old hardware.
Besides ranish partition manager you also could try http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ for that purpose.
It is also a bootloader which supports some sort of "2nd stage CDROM booting".
I have made a bootable floppy diskimage with that bootloader available for download at:
http://el-to2nd.my-vserver.de/
Feel free to try this and report, if it works for you.
- download
- gunzip
- dd/rawrite/rawritewin/winimage that to an
empty floppy disk
- insert ASL CD
- insert floppy
- boot from floppy
- select cdrom to boot from
I plan to remove all the bootmanager features and gui-stuff and only let bootmanager scan, show bootable CDs being inserted and let the user
choose between them (printing the disklabels would be nice, too).
Imagine that as a "Generic 2nd stage CD-ROM bootloader - Disk Image" for PCs without "Boot from CD" support in Bios.
If you don`t like the name "el-to2nd" please feel free to suggest a better name for that.(el-to is derived from "el-torito")
Help on this is very welcome, because i`m awfully bad programmer
Feedback is also welcome.
You can contact me at for_spam AT gmx DOT de .
regards
Roland
PS:
You also are sysadmin and always search your NT4.0 bootdisks ? If you have found them, one of them is corrupt (usually the 3rd one - as murphy teaches us)
no more ....
