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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

We accidentally left our Slackware installation CD in our computer and
also accidentally left the CMOS set to boot first from CD and it booted 
from that CD.

If you cannot partition a CD, could you set up the CD as ext2 and boot 
using a DOS boot floppy disk in combination with it somehow?
A:\autoexec.bat  for the boot command.  How would you write the .bat file 
to boot linux from the CD?


> Krzysztof Karwowski wrote:
> >
> > I want to boot BL 2.1 from CD, but I don't know how to 
> > do it. Can you help me?
> 
> To which, electronjunkie AT alltel.net replied:
> >
> > burn a bootable cd with a program like nero or some burning 
> > program so that it will boot into DOS and copy the BL 2.1 
> > unzipped files onto cd as well then boot from the cd into DOS 
> 
> That sounds like a way to go.  Make a bootable-DOS CD and boot 
> the ramdisk BL2 from there (using LOADLIN).
> 
> > and type the boot cmd to start linux. 
> 
> If you put the boot command into C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT, it will boot
> BasicLinux automatically.
> 
> If you want to boot a fuller version (HD installation) of BL2
> from the CD, you will need to find out whether a CD can be
> partitioned.  If not, you probably won't be able to use LOADLIN 
> to boot the Linux partition -- you'll need to use LILO, or
> whatever it is that bootable Linux CDroms use.
> 
> I think the Slackware 7.1 CD is bootable (I don't have a CD
> drive that boots, so I can't check this).  If it is bootable,
> you might be able to copy the routine it uses.  
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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