On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:05, Nick Emans wrote: > 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 > > > >
Trust me Nick, thats the first thing I tried! It says it will boot off teh CD when I set it in the BIOS, but it doesn't work *scratching my head on that one!*. Heh, next suggestion? Femme
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