On Fri, February 22, 2008 11:47 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > 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 $20 rebate. > "limited to quantities on hand" > > Come to the InstallFest tomorrow (Saturday), I have a couple of CD > copies of a network-based installer for Ubuntu 7.10. Boot a 29MB CD > and it does the rest. Of course your probably don't want Ubuntu 7.10. >
Good thoughts. Clarification. It's a company box, not personal. No interest in buying a gazillion-$ enterprise a new drive. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
