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On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:30:47 +0000, Nick Leverton wrote:
> I think you said, Martin, that your laptop had a CD but just wouldn't
> boot from it - can't go back to check on this single threaded
> newsreader!
>
That's correct.
> Older distros used to come with a boot floppy image on the CD, which you
> could dd onto a diskette and which would then boot the CD. Designed for
> use on machines which wouldn't boot from CD via their BIOS. That would
> probably still work.
>
The floppy image has been missing from Fedora from FC2 onwards. Actually,
it was two floppy images - the drivers were on a second disk, so even
kernel 2.4 was a tight squeeze.
> Or IIRC you can configure lilo/grub on an existing hard drive to give
> "boot from CD" as a menu option, if you can remember the invocations :)
>
Possibly true, no longer relevant. I ordered a Thinkpad R61 last night and
its first boot will be into the FC9 installer :-)
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