College Linux Boot Floppy?

pelvis_3

pelvis_3

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Hey all,
I recently aquired an old AMD K6-2 300Mhz, 320MB RAM, 6GBHDD machine and want to run college linux 9.1 on it but i can't find a boot floppy for that distro!
As the computer does'nt support CD-ROM boot i need a floppy image!
Anyone know where to get one from?
Direct links would be good if possible.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the college linux website denies me access, operation timed out or some crap! So that's a no go :(
Thanks
pelvis_3 :)
 
Anti-Trend said:
Sorry, I've been trying to connect to www.collegelinux.org all day, but it seems they've hit a patch of downtime. Debian also has a floppy install method, have you tried that?
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I've been reading that College Linux is no more so that's probably why i can't connect to it!
No i haven't tried that yet could you point me in the direction please?
 
This might be what you're looking for. But Debian isn't very easy for a new Linux user to install. If I was you, I'd check out VectorLinux. Vector, based on Slackware Linux, is a fast and moderately user-friendly Linux distro that is pretty modern yet should run fairly quickly on older hardware. There's a wiki page which covers installation methods, including booting from floppy.

-AT
 
Thanks AT, i tried the Debian image and it would'nt accept it as i'm trying to install College!
But i have no fear, i will install IP COP and make it a firewall providing ipcop has a boot floppy avaliable! I was going to install smoothwall but evreybody is raving about IP COP so i'll give it a try!
I'll also check out that Vector Linux as i have some more old machines lined up!
 
From the IPCop documentation:

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1.5.3. Creating Floppy Disks From Images

If your IPCop PC has a CD-ROM, but your BIOS will not allow a CD-ROM boot, you will need to create a floppy boot disk. If your IPCop PC does not have a CD-ROM, you will need to create both the floppy boot disk and the driver floppy disk. Both images reside in the /images directory on the ISO image.

1.5.3.1. Creating Floppies On *nix and Macintosh OS X

On Linux, Unix and Macintosh OS X systems, creating the floppies can be done from a terminal window with the dd command:

Code: 
# dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/boot-1.4.0.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k count=1440

Use the same command with if= pointing to the driver disk image to create the driver floppy, if needed.

1.5.3.2. Creating Floppies on Windows

Two utilities are provided in the /dosutils directory on the CD and its ISO image. These are rawrite.exe and rawwritewin.exe. rawrite.exe is a DOS based command that can be used to create floppies from the .img files in the /images directory. Similarly, rawwritewin.exe is a windows executable that you can run under Windows to create the floppy disks from the disk images on the CD.
 
Already onto it AT :)
Downloaded IP Cop and made the boot disk (downloaded the instructions off the IP Cop website) so now i gotta wait until tomorrow when i buy a network card for the old computer, so i'll post back when it's all up and running!
Thanks Again :)
 
Well i'm back!
IP Cop is just EXCELLENT, installed in 10 minutes flat, configured my network card properly, modem installation was a breeze and best of all it's more SECURE and FASTER
than that ZoneAlarm crap!
If anyone asks about IP Cop, expect a recommendation from me :)
 
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