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Hendronicus 03-29-2008 02:12 AM

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That's what I wanted to do as a temporary solution, but with a 160G usb portable hard drive I already have.
Well, that's more than enough room, never mind...

rbrady 03-30-2008 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by aus9 (Post 3102855)
what was not clear to me was ....is there a bios option to boot a cd in the bios boot order in lieu of using a floppy.

2) leaping ahead...if cd is already a viable bios boot order option....the OP just needs to remaster a live cd....to either have the usb drive in /etc/fstab or as SIMP suggests a chroot.

Yes I can boot a CD. I just haven't had a chance to try the above suggestions. Not sure I know enough yet to remaster a live cd.


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