I'm sorry for continually bothering you........

Hi all great and knoledgeably Linux people,

As a noob, I am dedicated to asking questions and explaining my situation. Right so I decided I wanted to run Linux off a floppy as I can't boot from my CD-ROM drive and all these creating a floppy boot disk thing is way to complicated.

So I downloaded Hal91 from
http://chris.silmor.de/hal91/
and I used the program to sort out the image. (by the way the thing that the page says about typing some stuff at the command line is utter nonesense - do what the program tells you when you run it - not what the it tells you to do on the website because it doesn't work).

So on my computer I set the BIOS to boot from a floppy and when I insert the floppy disk and reboot all I get is a black screen with the white cursor flashing repeatedly in that annoying fashion - you know how it does).

Basically as I said I'm a noob with Linux so I need someone to please take me SLOWLY through the installation process and if there is something better than Hal91 that I should be using.

Many, many thanks,

 

Hal91 seems to be discontinued.
This may not answer your question, but you can have a look at these floppy distros: http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=links#floppy

 

Debian also has a bootstrap-from-floppy distribution. See here for details.

Schwab

 

OK thanks.

 

I've given you both rep.