I have external disks and on systems where the BIOS allows one to boot from USB, I can start Fedora 7 on the external disk. I've got all the Grub and other complications with disk labels and so forth worked out. However... I have run into a fleet of Dell GX260 systems and the BIOS does not allow USB to boot. They do allow a CDROM to boot, however, and so I started wondering if there is a way I could give users a CDROM that would start the boot process and then hand over to the external USB system. I don't want the rescue disk, really, because that asks the users questions and requires them to interact as root with the system. But some thing like that would be good.. Do you have any advice? -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
