On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:08 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:37:55 -0800 > Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> dijo: > > >The need is for a laptop to run an HP S20 slide scanner, using Windows > >95 or 98, since that scanner has no Linux support. I have tried in > >the past using Windows 2K under VirtualBox, but that did not work. It > >used to work when I was dual-booting to Windows ME. > > I assume you tried Windows 95 or 98 under Virtualbox as well as 2000, > right? > VB does not fully support 95 and 98--guest additions for mouse and disk access are lacking. > > >I recently received an HP Pavilion ze5375us with Ubuntu installed. > >(Thanks Russell). He said that he had to try 2-3 times to get it to > >boot from the CD to do the install, but got it done. Now the CD does > >not seem to work. > > The bios is very sparce, but it shows that it had a CD. Ubuntu shows > > it > >has a CD, but can tell me little about it. wodim --devices tells me > >that the drive is /dev/scd0, but nothing more. ... > > Does the laptop have a USB port? If so it's probably 1.1, but will > still work with more modern USB devices, just more slowly. So you could > possibly scare up a USB CD drive. > > Or do you need to boot to the CD drive? If the laptop is as old as it > sounds, the BIOS probably doesn't offer the option of booting to a USB > drive, even if it's really a CD. > > Maybe I didn't read carefully enough. What do you need the CD drive for? > I want to install windows 95 or 98. (It has usb 2) I do not know if I can get it to boot from usb. > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
