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diff --git a/includes/sid/install.amd/install/README.sbm b/includes/sid/install.amd/install/README.sbm deleted file mode 100644 index 40876703e..000000000 --- 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. - |