On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
-At 07:07 AM 12/12/99 -0700, you wrote:
->On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Stephen Carville wrote:
-> > I have a laptop with a bad floppy drive and an external SCSI CD. I
-> > have a small DOS partition on the hard drive. Is it possible to
-> > initiate an install from a hard drive? I only need to get far enough
-> > along to start reading from the CD.
->
->dosutils/autoboot/*
-
-Does your motherboard BIOS allow booting from SCSI? If so, does your SCSI
-adapter allow booting from CDROM? If yes to both, this should be easy. I
-just did an install of mandrake 6.1 with no floppy. Just put the cdrom in
-and boot (you may need to tweak the BIOS a bit first).
Unfortunately no to both. This is a pretty old laptop -- HP 5000 --
and will only boot from floppy or hard drive.
--
Stephen Carville
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Any law that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the grounds
that guns are a public health hazard should be treated the same as
a law that burdens Atheism as a mental health hazard.
