At 11:45 AM -0500 7/8/05, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote: >> > >> How expensive is it to get a used CD drive and do the install >> one-by-one, moving it around? >> >A lot of these old machines will not boot from CD even if one >is installed. I tried various combinations of a boot floppy >which would transfer control to a boot CD without much luck >and eventually did something else. > >Maybe someone else has build a boot floppy which would transfer >control to the boot CD. What happens if the boot floppy contains just a grub bootsector pointing to the CD? (I don't know, I'm asking.) I think that would qualify as booting from the floppy as far as the BIOS is concerned. I expect that the CD would have to be set up for grub booting for this to work, however. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
