From 80d4f9808983e9faa0c55bbf8a4189e6b1f3a0dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Lamb <chris@chris-lamb.co.uk> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:28:30 +0100 Subject: Replace install.amd/install -> install.386/install symlink with a real copy. --- includes/sid/install.amd/install | 1 - includes/sid/install.amd/install/README.sbm | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ includes/sid/install.amd/install/sbm.bin | Bin 0 -> 1474560 bytes 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) delete mode 120000 includes/sid/install.amd/install create mode 100644 includes/sid/install.amd/install/README.sbm create mode 100644 includes/sid/install.amd/install/sbm.bin diff --git a/includes/sid/install.amd/install b/includes/sid/install.amd/install deleted file mode 120000 index 7ba56c8..0000000 --- a/includes/sid/install.amd/install +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -../install.386/install \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/includes/sid/install.amd/install/README.sbm b/includes/sid/install.amd/install/README.sbm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4087670 --- /dev/null +++ b/includes/sid/install.amd/install/README.sbm @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +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.bin new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b6e2415 Binary files /dev/null and b/includes/sid/install.amd/install/sbm.bin differ -- cgit v1.0