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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Clive Rogers wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007 20:15:10 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 18:12 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote:
> > > So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into
> > > linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ?
> > >
> > > If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ?
> > I think you could tell Yast to install grub on a floppy. When that works,
> > you burn a CD (with k3b, for instance) telling it to use the floppy as an
> > "El Torito" boot image. The actual data of the CD doesn't matter (maybe
> > you have to 'dd' the floppy to a file first).
> >
> > Of course, he needs a floppy drive first... And I haven't tried this
> > procedure with Linux, only with msdos; so I can't certify it works.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >         Carlos E. R.
>
> He don't have a floppy on his laptop.
USB floppies are inexpensive.


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