Rafe wrote:
wierd I know.
Early CDROM's were not bootable. I was told this years ago when I wondered why I couldn't boot SuSE 6.1 on an old Fuji laptop. Regards Sid.
I found it very strange that a usb floppy could boot, but not a usb cdrom. Most of the time you can boot from usb or not. Plus this laptop is not old enough to have this limit.
Bootable cdroms look a lot like floppies to the hardware. I am not sure why the hardware cannot be fooled into booting from the cdrom.
I also think that a very small change in the system bios would fix this -- but I guess not. I have an ancient pI box that after a bios update now boots from cdrom. You would think that a pIII box would.
Rafe
I would also expect a P-III to be able to bot from CDROM, my old laptop is a P-II/333 64M + 2M video and 20G HD, it booted from cdrom and installed 9.3 in non-graphical mode due to the low memory, but X works fine with Windowmaker and all small window managers, KDE is tooooooo slow, if you move the cursor, it'll take an age for anything to happen, but YaST performs OK under Windowmaker or fvwm. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks