Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 12/31/04

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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:43:09 -0600

    On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 21:32 -0800, Syed Huq wrote:
    > >
    > > If you're lacking space in /usr, how is booting from a Sarge CD going to
    > > help? Are you planning on
    > > wiping/repartitioning/resizingpartitions/reinstalling, or what?
    > >
    >
    > Exactly yes. I just added a 2nd hard hard drive and I intend to wipe
    > it all out/re-parition/re-install from scratch. This 2nd hard drive
    > came from a Windows PC so need to do all that for space.
    >
    > I am not sure why booting from Sarge is so difficult.

    Your system (a) won't boot from CD, and (b) does "not have a
    floppy drive".

    Don't blame Debian for your system's faults. 

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