How to boot a cdrom from a mobile USB cdrom (old bios, without usb boot)
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There are many floppies out there (and cd's) that could be used too. Plop boot or I think slitaz's boot floppy will do it and more. Puppy and maybe dsl linux have them too.
There are plenty of people that boot to a system that doesn't support usb boot to cd. One of the deals is that if your system is too old you may need to change isolinux/syslinux. Puppy linux has both versions for how old your system is. Puppy linux and dsl linux should both have floppies to boot to their distro's.
Pretty sure I did use plop to boot to a usb dvd drive. I'd bet a nickel that I used slitaz's too? I guess I could be wrong on that.
Think there is a way to boot to dos with old zip drive files that would then boot to a usb cd drive.
There are plenty of people that boot to a system that doesn't support usb boot to cd. One of the deals is that if your system is too old you may need to change isolinux/syslinux. Puppy linux has both versions for how old your system is. Puppy linux and dsl linux should both have floppies to boot to their distro's.
Pretty sure I did use plop to boot to a usb dvd drive. I'd bet a nickel that I used slitaz's too? I guess I could be wrong on that.
Think there is a way to boot to dos with old zip drive files that would then boot to a usb cd drive.
Might see if grub4dos/grub4nt would work too.
well puppy and damn small linux cna boot their own system from floppy disk.
I would like to make a new fresh install of LINUX, since the cdrom reader is broken ont hte old pc, I have to use a trick of using USB booting from bios from a cdrom located into a mobile usb2ide, where I put a cdrom reader.
Unfortunately I could not find anything that can boot it from floppy, ie floppy that has a driver for taht.
So sliatz I gonna try it, but if I recall well; I tried and it gave no reulsts
I think we are back to the isolinux/syslinux deal.
Why not start with trying to get puppy or dsl to work then then start out from there? They were made for your system. There is one other distro but I think it is too new. It may be worth a read. Legacy OS.
I think we are back to the isolinux/syslinux deal.
Why not start with trying to get puppy or dsl to work then then start out from there? They were made for your system. There is one other distro but I think it is too new. It may be worth a read. Legacy OS.
puppy linux is very slow on my machine: no way
I tried DSL but the kernel is not sufficient for a usb card readesr. I need a 2.6 kernel whihc is by debian;
I try this making pendrive but not working
tested "Copying the files - the more flexible way" : not working
results : blinking cursor at usb plop boot.
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