boot floppy to facilitate boot from IDE CDROM on classic Pentium

From: Justin Jones (jones_at_justjones.org)
Date: 11/15/04

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    boot floppy to facilitate boot from IDE CDROM on classic Pentium

    I have an old Dell laptop Pentium 150Mhz XPiCD without BIOS
    support for booting from CDROM, but there are several boot
    Utility Linux Boot CD's I would like to run on this box from
    time to time. Is there a premade boot floppy to facilitate
    this or does that even make sense? i.e., appartently there
    is more to it than boot=/dev/hdc at the lilo prompt and
    would such a boot floppy have to be custom made for each
    LiveCD Utility?

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