Old laptop drive, perfect for /boot

Leo Mauler webgiant at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 6 19:06:25 CST 2005


--- Jon Pruente <jdpruente at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just keep a bootable CD in the drive when it boots
> ;)
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> Ah, but many of the old beasts that can't handle big
> drives also can't
> handle bootable CDs.  I've got several Pentium-class
> machines that don't.
> ;)

Absolutely true, can't boot some of the newer LiveCDs
which don't have boot floppies anymore.

D*mnSmallLinux only works on some of them when you use
the syslinux version.



		
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