Win instal CDs boot linux!!! YESSSSSS!!! ; Re: [Novalug] Looking for bootable floppy lnux that recognises USB

[James (Jim) Darlack]

Thanks, Dan.  I dint know it would boot other bootable CDs.  LUV the idea.
   
  Viruses, virii... be freekin ware.....

Dan Arico <dan_arico at aricosystems.com> wrote:
  On Fri January 19 2007 8:01 pm, James (Jim) Darlack wrote:
> Wow.. talk about a learning curve. Reading linux docs, and playing
> with live CDs... and in radical absorb mode.
>
> PROBLEM:
> I have an old PC with Windows 98 or 2000 on it. I forget which it
> is. It has a virus. The system wont boot from a hard disk. 
> Therefore, I cant boot CentOS live, etc. I fiddled with the bios, and
> it is so old it wont boot from a CD or USB; floppy or hard disk boot
> options ONLY.

It does have a CD drive, I assume. If so, there's a way around this.

Win 95 and Win98 used to come with floppies that would load a CD driver 
and then turn everything over to the disk in the CD drive. If it's a 
Knoppix CD in the drive, it boots into Knoppix.

If you don't have one of those floppies, you can find and image of one on 
the installation CD for Win95, Win98, Win2K and most Linux distributions 
- even a lot of the more recent ones.

Dan Arico

-- 
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One OS to bring them all, and in the Darkness bind them,
In the land of Redmond, where the Sales Reps lie.


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