[Klug-general] Booting Options

[Andrew Miller (Spode)]

Grub on a floppy should work - I think there are some nice boot disks out
there for this exact thing :)

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:15 AM, rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk <
rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all its me again Probably bothering youwith Trivia but.....
>  I have been Playing with the old laptop that Nathan kindly donated to
> me, and, while I have made some progress in understanding, I have two
> problems which I cannot seem to find the answer to on Web Sites.
> Given that the Laptop will boot from Hard disc or floppy and does not
> have the option of Cd boot up or USB connections is it possible :
> 1) to divert the boot process to a Cd at GRUB stage or is it already
> committed to load from hard drive?
> 2)Can I boot from the current OS (DSL) , mount CDrom do an install
> from a live disc or iso image of the required system?
>  Regards R.
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