Is there any way to boot from an external PCMCIA CD drive?

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Is there any way to boot from an external PCMCIA CD drive?

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04-16-2004, 01:02 PM	#1
Brakki Member Registered: Jun 2003 Distribution: Fedora Core 1 Posts: 33 Rep:	Is there any way to boot from an external PCMCIA CD drive? I have no clue how to go about doing this. Any suggestions? From all the installing I've done, I have to boot a boot floppy, then load drivers for PCMCIA services to access my CD drive, but I want to install Gentoo, which doesn't have a boot floppy/driver floppies.

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