Hi again, AG: On Saturday 31 October 2009 19:41:16 AG wrote: > Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > > Hi, AG: > > > > On Saturday 31 October 2009 18:49:14 AG wrote: > >> Tim Tebbit wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> (3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only > >> allows HD, CD or floppy). It requires something to boot first before it > >> can mount additional files such a USB stick. > > > > Does it support booting from network (PXE?)? What other boot up methods > > are supported? (leaving appart floppy and hard disk). > > Only the three options noted - CD, floppy and HD. The BIOS does not > (appear to) support PXE ... at least that is not given as an option anyway.
I'd say you are closed to these options: * Find an external USB-based CD or HD drive. * Find the way to open the case to extract the internal HD. * Find a different computer with a floppy disk drive. Lacking any of these (you migth buy them, rent them or find a friend who lend them) you don't own a laptop but a brick. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
