On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:38:11 +1200 Sascha Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey guys, > > I've just laid my hands on a rather large number of Deskpro 2000's and > a few 4000's. Unfortunately the Compaq F10 setup utility which resides > on the hard drive has been erased on all the ones I've checked so far, > and the onboard "bios" does a simple fallback to boot from the floppy, > or first hard drive. > > So basically I can't boot from CD, so I can't install IPcop. I'm after > a bootfloppy that will basically force a cd boot, or an ipcop install > floppy if they exist (I've got the ipcop 1.4.0b9 iso) can anyone help? > 1. http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html will do what you want 2. alternatively you can boot off the floppy images that come with ipcop (see under the images dir on the cd) and do an ftp/http install, i do this all the time as i have no cdrom in my router. > ps. Once I've figured out how to install linux on these puppies > they're up for sale. I'll post some more details when I know they're > actually working :) > > -- > Regards, > Sascha -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
