On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:56 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lan Barnes wrote:
> > I have yet another of those really old BIOS boxes that won't boot from a
> > DVD. It does have 2 DVD drives.
> >
> > I'm thinking of
> >
> > 1. taking off the CD boot image and booting from it
> >
> > 2. toggling to the CLI and mounting the DVD on the other drive and then
> > exporting it
> >
> > 3. doing a NFS install to 127.0.0.1
> >
> > Comments? Could this work?
> >
>
> Does the DVD work, and does it have a floppy drive?
> Maybe smart boot manager is worth a try:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4185
>
> SBM boots to the floppy and lets you re-choose a boot device from a
> menu. It does sometimes help on those older bios's.
>
Side question before you try too many other things. Some older DVD
drives can not _read_ home-burned DVDs? _a fortiori_ they can't boot
from home-burned DVDs.
Alternative possible solution, goes against the CB grain but all
depends on what your time costs. Fry's ad in this morning's paper
{Friday) has DVD +- RW internal drives for $40 with $20 rebate.
"limited to quantities on hand"
Come to the InstallFest tomorrow (Saturday), I have a couple of CD
copies of a network-based installer for Ubuntu 7.10. Boot a 29MB CD
and it does the rest. Of course your probably don't want Ubuntu 7.10.
carl
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