Femme:
Can't the BIOS be set to boot off the CD?
Femme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have come into ownership of an older HP Omnibook, a PII 233 iirc, and
>its got a removeable CD-Rom & Floppy drive. Can't have both attached at
>once.
>
>I had planned to stick mandrake on it, however I ran into a small snag.
>If I can't boot the CD itself, and can't have both floppy & CD-Rom
>attached at the same time, I can't boot from floppy then install. Nor
>may I just install off the CD.
>
>So..what to do? I looked at the linux for laptops site. No luck
>there. The one page devoted to this stuff was fairly useless. I went
>to HP's site for info on the BIOS & stuff, and got little else but BIOS
>info.
>
>So any suggestions? Ideas? Help?
>
>Thx,
>Femme
>
>
>
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nickE
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