Installing Ubuntu on a REALLY old computer

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:: Rod Speed wrote
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: Mindless pig ignorant silly stuff.

Ah yes, more pearls of wisdom from the resident troll and village
idiot....lucky us.

j.
 
George said:
There were early El Torito BIOS implementations which only worked with
"floppy emulation" boot mode and vice versa. I definitely recall a system
which would boot from emulation CDs but not with Microsoft OS bootable CDs
- this seems to be the converse case. If all else fails you could always
try a boot manager
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I was able to make one CD that is bootable on this computer. I used
Nero's built-in boot cd creator which uses DR-DOS as its boot os. This
seems to be of the floppy emulation variety. It produces two partitions
on the CD with a small boot partition containing mainly the DR-DOS
kernel and utilities (A:). The second partition contains the remaining
data (D:).

This also seems to be the format of the Windows 95 recovery cd that HP
provided. You see both a drive A: and a drive D: when this CD boots up.

Yousuf Khan
 
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