On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 00:49, Pierre LaMontagne <plamo...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure this oldest PC of mine won't > boot from a CD. OK, this is the first thing. Why not try? If you have any bootable CD of any kind around, why not just give it a go? This would seem to be a lot easier than faffing around trying to make boot diskettes, which is clearly giving you problems or you would not be asking. Boot from CD was _extremely_ rare in the 80486 era, but by the 2nd-generation Pentium era was getting more common as ATAPI CD drives became common. I would expect a Pentium II machine to do it, yes. Especially if it is on current firmware. If it isn't update it. Secondly, in case of problems, Plop will probably help you. https://www.plop.at/en/pbm6/full.html I used to use Plop extensively 10-15 years ago, to get then-old PCs to boot Linux. Plop is tiny: a few tens of kilobytes. Put it on a floppy, boot the PC from the floppy, and then Plop will boot a CD for you. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
