[Cialug] what distros were out in 1996?

[James Shoemaker]

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timwilson011@mchsi.com wrote:
> That reminds me, I've been meaning to ask a question.  I have a laptop with no
> CD-Rom, but I have an external one hooked up via a SCSI-II connection.  Of
> course, I can't boot off of the external CD-Rom drive.  I found an "sbm.bin"
> which is supposedly a floppy image for a boot manager.  However, I couldn't get
> it to work.  Is there something out there that I can use, or am I stuck making a
> boot floppy for the distro, and using it?  I wanted to try a Live CD distro, so
> I'm not sure if there's a boot floppy for it.

	If there are linux drivers for your PCMCIA SCSI card just boot in dos
and use loadlin to get it started.

James
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