On Thursday 25 October 2007 20:15:10 Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 18:12 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote: > > So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into > > linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ? > > > > If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ? > > I think you could tell Yast to install grub on a floppy. When that works, > you burn a CD (with k3b, for instance) telling it to use the floppy as an > "El Torito" boot image. The actual data of the CD doesn't matter (maybe > you have to 'dd' the floppy to a file first). > > Of course, he needs a floppy drive first... And I haven't tried this > procedure with Linux, only with msdos; so I can't certify it works. > > -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R.
He don't have a floppy on his laptop. -- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
