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Old Laptop Live CD

Postby irsmart » Sat Nov 12, 2005 11:58 pm

I am having trouble running a LiveCD on an old laptop. The BIOS has no option of booting from the CD drive; only floppy drive and hard drive. I would like to use SLAX by taking the hard drive out, so if someone could help me maybe get a floppy boot disc or some other soultion.

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Postby nick » Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:07 am

That is a problem, but it can be worked around by using a floppy which will hand off the booting to the CD. After that, you could install SLAX to the hard drive for a bit more speed.

http://www.geocities.com/slaxfansite/#bios
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Postby anony » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:40 am

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