I was playing around with v3.0 of debian, and somewhere on the distribution CD there was a floppy disk image that you could boot from, and it would present you another boot menu where you could choose what DEVICE to boot from.
With this floppy, you could boot it, insert your bootable CD into your non bootstrapping CD-ROM, and the disk would start reading and booting from the cd-rom.
It's really handy. I have commented on it before. I used it for installing Windows XP from CD on a machine that wouldn't boot from CD. I just wish I knew what the image name was called and where it could be found.
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| Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: Unattended List <unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net> cc: Subject: [Unattended] booting linuxboot from a floppy (when BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting)- possible? |
Hello,
I have several workstations that don't support CD-ROM booting - and
therefore, can only be booted from a floppy.
Is it possible to start Unattended linuxboot from a floppy, and then
continue it from a CD-ROM? (as it's possible with installing Linux
distributions - they have a special floppy for those that have PCs which
don't support CD-ROM booting).
Tomek
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