On Thursday 31 March 2005 2:39, Sick Twist wrote:
> I have an old Pentium box that currently has Slackware installed on it. I
> would like to install a new distro but the BIOS does not support booting
> from CD-ROM. I would like to know if there is a way to configure LILO (or
> GRUB) to do it so that I do not have to find and use a floppy. I was
> unable to find any information about this with Google.
>
> -Jonathon
I saw a post in a laptop group about a bootloader on sourceforge that does
what you want. It installs on the boot drive and has a menu option to boot
from any other drive, including the cdrom. If LILO doesn't do the job, search
sourceforge for bootloaders.
Jeff
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