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

Reply via email to