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 :-)