Like the other mike mentioned... its really the bios/cdrom drive that make the
difference, but I think what your saying is anything new enough to take a
266mhz cpu would likely be new enough to have a bios that does have a cdrom
boot option.
However... its still pretty buggy, and I assume he wants to run this box 24/7
w/out rebooting if possible (only in emergency, and unatended). Ive used some
suse systems that run from cdrom (but leave a small file on the windows
partion for config info) and slackware "live" cd, and they both suffer
stability issues (i belive its something to do with a cdrom read speeds or
something..) they are great fun, and a really good way to show people linux
w/out messing upt their existing systems but they crash when used for
extended periods of time.. its just not stable. many older hard drives are
really ruggeed and sturdy... (ive got some that have been tossed around in
the back of my car, and they still work fine!) (note: do not try this with
new drives, they are very sensitive to shock! )
Jamie
On Monday 08 December 2003 02:59 am, mike wrote:
: just about any cd-rom over 16x should be able to boot from cd. and 266-300
: pentiums SHOULD all have the boot from cd option.
:
: On Sunday 08 December 2002 12:52 am, Tony Newman wrote:
: > On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 20:33:41 -0800, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
: > >Tony,
: > > You might want to use an older hard disk.(under 540mb).. it sounds
: > > weird, but the older disks seem to be more sturdy than new ones...
: > > first get your tvtuner card working... and your networking... read up
: > > on bttv (module), and xawtv (there are a lot of command line options,
: > > one maybe to just cap an image). The rest will be the fun part
: > > (scripting it all...)
: > >
: > >I can do windows... but I havnt bought/used regularly anything newer
: > > than 98... Im much happier in a linux environment :)
: > >
: > >Jamie
: >
: > Hello again,
: >
: > That probably explains why there are several old Maxtor 300 to 500
: > meg disks floating around here. Anyway, now to get a card and see what
: > I can do with it.
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