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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> The computer appears to be booting properly now, so we are back to 
> the problem of how to use it without a hard drive after booting 
> from floppy disk.  Can we, while it is turned on, remove the floppy 
> drive so as to insert the DVD-ROM drive?  We could then run linux 
> from a parport zip drive, booted from floppy disk with grub, and 
> play DVDs.

Usually, single drive bays in laptops are hot-swappable.

> Another option would be to learn to make a bootable linux CD with 
> mplayer on it.

You do know that BL3 and BL2 are available in bootable form? You
can either put MPlayer on the same disk (I will post directions
if you want this) or you can put MPlayer on a parport ZIP disk
and mount that (after getting the modules from a CD).

David

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