-----Original Message----- can't install from newer OpenBSD cdroms. So I have to use a floppy Jonathan ------------------
and then, On Friday 14 January 2005 07:44 am, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
Just use a usb cdrom then, and if the box doesn't support that, then it should be given to Hal :)
My situation: IBM ThinkPad 760E CDRom - Pentium I SUSE 2.3 (the book says Pentium I & 32megs is all it needs, and has a CD) floppy drive is bad (floppies good elsewhere look bad to this machine)
And Jonathan also wrote
I think booting to a CD on a PCMCIA adapter would be unlikely.
That's what I was going to try if I could get a driver installed... So if that won't work, would a USB CD drive (using some kind of adapter, the 760E has neither CD drive nor USB port) boot?
Alternatively, maybe I should give it to Hal (? "open the pod bay door", that Hal?)
On Friday 14 January 2005 12:15 pm, Bailey, Michael L [NTK] wrote:
So if that won't work, would a USB CD drive (using some kind of adapter, the 760E has neither CD drive nor USB port) boot?
If you need drivers, chances are you're not going to be able to boot to the device. It needs to be accessible at the BIOS level to boot from it.
If you could get the bootloader with an initrd file on a BIOS accessible device, you could put the rest of the OS on whatever kind of device you can find drivers for.
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Jonathan Hutchins