Re: boot diskette

Basically you want to boot from the floppy, but have it load cd drivers and
then transfer control to the boot loader on the cd?



On 10/25/06, Ed Heron <Ed-MBvgLuVkLo/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   I was hoping for a boot diskette that would replicate the booting from
> CD
> that newer computers do.  Does that make sense?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Browne" <[email protected]>
> To: "New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 5:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [NMLUG] boot diskette
>
>
> > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:21:04 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> >>  I've got an old laptop that won't boot off CD.  Is there a diskette
> >> image
> >>out there that will boot off CD?
> >>
> >>--------------------
> >>Ed Heron
> >
> > You haven't defined the problem well enough for a response. You want
> > this to boot into a resident Linux installation, or just to boot at
> > all, into DOS, for instance? If the latter, I mentioned some time ago
> > Hiren's BootCD (grayareaware) and there is also the Ultimate BootCD
> > (freeware). You can find downloadable ISOs with an online search.
> >
> > Steve
> > Stephen B. Browne
> > [email protected]
> > "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
> >                          - Walt Disney
> >
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