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Re: Debian on an old PC



On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:42:58PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
> 
> > I would be surprised if that old machine could *boot a cdrom*. Have
> >
> > you tried *that*?
> >
> > ;-0
> It can't boot from cdrom, it has one (4X) but the system doesn't know of
> it untill an OS is loaded (i.e. win98se). I'm forced to install linux with
> floppy disks.
> 
Can't you change the boot order in the BIOS setup to look for 
cdrom first?  Debian install CDs are bootable, surely?

David

-- 
David Jardine

"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it." -Sacher M.



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