On Saturday 08 October 2005 2:02 am, Alex wrote: > hey all.. ok i got a small delema.. i have a laptop.. but the cdrom drive > isn't working at ALL.. so untill i get a new laptop.. i need a way to use > my external USB cdrom.. now my in its old bios theres no option to boot > from USB.. just pcmcia network.. etc.. is there any sort of disk..that i > can boot from that will allow me to boot off my usb ( dev/sda1/ ) any sort > of boot loader or any thing.. i can't imagine this being to difficult.. any > suggestions?
Follow step 2 from here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml That should let you boot from any device using a bootloader from floppy, I think. Nick _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

