[Herefordshire] Laptop Q

[Noel McG.]

I think I must have misread the question!

Noel.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Broadbent" <markb at wetlettuce.com>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] Laptop Q


> Hi Noel,
>
> Noel McG. wrote:
> > If you have an operasting system installed you should be able to boot or
> > whatever from a CD.
> >
> > However if you have a clean formatted HD with no OS I would suspect not,
> > as one of the things on a boot up floppy is the driver for the CD drive
> > without which it will not work.
>
> Booting from a CD is function of the BIOS and not related to any
> operating systems installed.  Older computers (I would guess pre-1997)
> would not be able to boot from CD, it's quite to see if it can though.
> Just go into the BIOS and find the menu that allows you to select the
> boot devices order and see if CD-ROM can be selected.
>
>  From my own perspective (regarding floppy drives), I've had a laptop
> for a year without one and have only had 1 instance were I have needed
> it, however, that could have been overcome if I had a USB memory key.
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
> >
> >
> >
> > If a PC has a CD ( / DVD) drive and the BIOS supports booting from it
> > (which I assume they all do now)
> >
> > Then if I have a CD which has had suitable files and utilities burnt
> > onto it
> > (e.g. for DOS:  Io.sys  Command.com  Msdos.sys  and then  fdisk.exe
> > format.com  etc. etc.)
> >
> > Would I have any problems booting with this CD and doing with it the
> > things I would have done with a bootable floppy (assuming that the CD
> > had the relevant files on it's little boot like a floppy area, or that
> > the relevant files could be accessed elsewhere on the CD, or a hard
drive?
> >
> > Please excuse my ignorance and thanks in anticipation
> >
> > Edward FW
> >
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