instalation on USB-less and CD-less machines

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jul 8 17:48:30 UTC 2005


STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:

>>How expensive is it to get a used CD drive and do the install
>>one-by-one, moving it around?
>>
>>    
>>
>A lot of these old machines will not boot from CD even if one
>is installed.  I tried various combinations of a boot floppy
>which would transfer control to a boot CD without much luck
>and eventually did something else.
>
>Maybe someone else has build a boot floppy which would transfer
>control to the boot CD.
>
>  
>
I haven't used this, but it makes pretty grand claims about being able
to boot a CDROM off of floppy

http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html

Mike

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