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Making a boot floppy with rawritewin.exe

I am desperate...please help me. I've downloaded Suse 8.0, an I am trying to make a bootable floppy. I tryed almost evrything(Rawrite, Rawritewin, CDMate, Nero...etc) Whenewer I try tu burn boot.iso on floppy or CD, the result is not a bootable medium. When I reboot it just starts the Windows, even though I have BIOS set up as it should be(Boot from CD1, then CD2, then Floppy and then from HDD)

Please Help ME!!!

leon_73

Try to do as follows:
copy the following files

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/boot/bootdisk
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/boot/modules1
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/boot/modules3

then use Rawrite to create the 3 disks and boot from the first disk
Boot from floppy and at the bootpromt enter the installation source:

linux install=ftp://ftp_server/directory

Remember to substitute 'ftp_server' and 'directory' with the appropriate values (e.g. install=ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/8.0 if you're installing from the SuSE ftp server).

Alternatively, choose 'manual installation' and configure the network in the installation program.

Gns

IIRC boot.iso is the boot diskette(s) wrapped up in a format for burning to a CD, so leon_73 is very correct in his advice.
Suse doesn't provide readymade downloadable ISO images of the complete install, unlike most other distributions.

-- Glenn

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ssdjgru1

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ammm....I alredy downloaded all kinds of boot.iso, but when I unpack them on floppy or CD the result is a NON BOOTABLE medium.

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Gns

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ssdjgru1

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I gave up!
I have made everything, but now the result is a floppy, that hangs my computer. Somebody sucks here...is that SuSE or me? :)