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[Clive Rogers <c.rogers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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Kindest regards,

Clive
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/

Fighting for darker skies.
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