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Linda A. W. wrote:
I have an old laptop that my last install had involved using floppy images because the laptop is so old (*creak*) that it doesn't have a BIOS option capable of booting from the CDROM.
What I was wondering if there was any option in lilo or another boot loader that could include a PC driver for a standard CDROM (hdc) that would allow me to boot from it as a boot option directly from the boot prompt?
Reason being is I want to try upgrading it to 9.1 -- which, primitively enough, still requires booting from a CDROM or floppy to initiate.
It really would be nice if SuSE had an update option that could either do an update from a currently running system (followed by a reboot), or could start the reboot kernel directly from the running system.
I want to config the computer for a remote audio device, possibly...it might have the horse power for that....:-) Either that or as a "dumb terminal" or internet browser-only system.
Thanks for any pointers on the CDBOOT... -linda
I seem to recall some old DOS utilities, that would direct booting to the CD. One of those might do the trick. Another possibility, would be a network install. You'd mount the CD on another system and share it via NFS or Samba and then with the boot floppy from SuSE, install over a network.