On Sunday 04 August 2002 11:47, Jason Guidry wrote:
>On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 10:48, Chuck Shirley wrote:
>> I have a cooker machine, a laptop... it has no floppy drive.
>> Rather than make a set of CDs, I want to put the hd.image on a cdr,
>> and boot that....
>It maybe sort of a pain, but you could certainly pull the hard drive
>from that laptop and do an install from a desktop machine (you'll need
>an adapter, of course). also, a few of the cd places out there
>(cheapbytes.com et.al.) offer cooker disks, and I'm sure they'd be happy
>to burn you off a few disks of the absolute latest.
>
>or <humor>you could send me $20 to the address on my website and I'll
>burn the disks for you</humor> unless you'd acually send me $20. and
>that's USD, nun-a-that canadian stuff.
Thanks for the offer, but I was just trying to save the hassle of
burning a new set of CDs myself. (Especially with all the trouble
mkcds has been having lately.) ;)
So far, I have only tried using XCDRoast to make boot-floppy CDs,
but have failed. I suppose I should look into doing it via command
line, as I'm sure there are better options. As it stands, I have
tried to burn floppy image directly to the CDR (by telling XCDRoast
to use the hd.img as the disc image) but the bios wouldn't boot it.
And I tried mastering a CD on-the-fly using hd.img as the boot image
(I was sure this would work, but the bios still said it wasn't a
bootable image... :( Back to the drawing board!
-Chuck
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