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| diff --git a/includes/sid/install.386/install/README.sbm b/includes/sid/install.386/install/README.sbm deleted file mode 100644 index 4087670..0000000 --- a/includes/sid/install.386/install/README.sbm +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ -About the Smart Boot Manager image ----------------------------------- - -  The file `sbm.bin' that is available in this directory may be useful -  to you if you are not able to directly boot the first CD because your -  BIOS may be too old and may not support ISOLINUX. - -  Then, instead of booting on the CD directly, you create a Smart Boot -  Manager floppy image by using the sbm.bin disk image. You can create this -  floppy with rawrite (under DOS) or with dd (under Linux). Now you can -  boot on this floppy disk and it will detect your CDROM and let you boot -  on it bypassing any BIOS limitation. - -What is SBM ? - -  Smart Boot Manager or briefly SmartBtmgr (SBM), is an OS independent -  Boot Manager - a program that is loaded by the bios before any -  operating system and allows you to choose which operating system to -  boot. - -  SBM is included in Debian in two ways, the package bmconf allows us to -  install and configure an old version of SBM and sbm wich is the latest -  version of SBM with an installer. - -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. - -How do you make a SBM floppy ? - -  If you have SBM installed on a box you can run sbminst. Otherwise you can -  put the sbm.bin floppy image that we provide with our cds onto a floppy -  just like you would do with a rescue image. - diff --git a/includes/sid/install.386/install/sbm.bin b/includes/sid/install.386/install/sbm.binBinary files differ deleted file mode 100644 index b6e2415..0000000 --- a/includes/sid/install.386/install/sbm.bin +++ /dev/null diff --git a/includes/sid/install.amd/install/README.sbm b/includes/sid/install.amd/install/README.sbm deleted file mode 100644 index 4087670..0000000 --- a/includes/sid/install.amd/install/README.sbm +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ -About the Smart Boot Manager image ----------------------------------- - -  The file `sbm.bin' that is available in this directory may be useful -  to you if you are not able to directly boot the first CD because your -  BIOS may be too old and may not support ISOLINUX. - -  Then, instead of booting on the CD directly, you create a Smart Boot -  Manager floppy image by using the sbm.bin disk image. You can create this -  floppy with rawrite (under DOS) or with dd (under Linux). Now you can -  boot on this floppy disk and it will detect your CDROM and let you boot -  on it bypassing any BIOS limitation. - -What is SBM ? - -  Smart Boot Manager or briefly SmartBtmgr (SBM), is an OS independent -  Boot Manager - a program that is loaded by the bios before any -  operating system and allows you to choose which operating system to -  boot. - -  SBM is included in Debian in two ways, the package bmconf allows us to -  install and configure an old version of SBM and sbm wich is the latest -  version of SBM with an installer. - -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. - -How do you make a SBM floppy ? - -  If you have SBM installed on a box you can run sbminst. Otherwise you can -  put the sbm.bin floppy image that we provide with our cds onto a floppy -  just like you would do with a rescue image. - diff --git a/includes/sid/install.amd/install/sbm.bin b/includes/sid/install.amd/install/sbm.binBinary files differ deleted file mode 100644 index b6e2415..0000000 --- a/includes/sid/install.amd/install/sbm.bin +++ /dev/null | 
