Booting with an old computer

Many old computers cannot boot CDRom. The problem may come from the Bios, from the CD-drive, ... If you have such a problem, you can try to create a boot floppy, that allow to to start the system on the CDRom. Smart BootManager can do such a boot floppy for you. If you have no floppy, you can install this bootloader on the hard disk too. Using this boot manager is easy. You must download sbminst, and run the installer from Linux. Here is the most common install process: ./sbminst -t us -d /dev/fd0