Re: Installing with External Backpack CD-rom
From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 05/07/04
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Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 13:55:42 -0000
On Thu, 06 May 2004 17:48:02 GMT, Michael Rowley
<Draxum@toast.net> wrote:
> I have a IBM 760ELD Laptop computer. It has a Ultra port which accepts both
> floppy and CD-rom but not both at the same time. I also have a External
> Backpack parallel port CD-rom for the laptop. Does anyone know how to get
> linux to boot from the external cd-rom. The laptops BIOS does not support
> cd-rom booting only floppy drive and I have looked to see if there is a BIOS
> upgrade there but to know success.
>
You can't boot from a parallel port CDROM. You'll have to compile a
kernel with drivers for the CDROM and make a boot floppy.
-- Giraffe: a ruminant with a view.
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