booting from CD, shortcuts anyone?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Greg,

The sbm package is available in Debian, but I gather it needs to be installed on
the laptop's HD to use it. I must be missing something here.  I'm not
understanding how it can help me, since to put it on the laptop's HD,
I'd need to have Linux running on it already, in which case I wouldn't
need it.

But thanks for the info about the machine.

Chuck
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:35:43PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Check out sbm, smart boot manager, it should do what you want,
> assuming you can hook up a usb floppy drive to the machine, and boot
> from it.
> I don't see mention of a home page in the package description, but
> apt-get install sbm should drag it in for you on a debian system. It
> does say in the package description that it can boot from multiple
> kinds of media, so maybe you can use a thumb drive, I've only tried it
> from a floppy though.
> 
> As for the laptop you're describing, I'd guess it's probably the
> smalltalk ultra, and they come with xp home installed as far as I
> know. Hth.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:03:21PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm hoping somebody might know some real cool tricks for booting a
> > laptop from a CD when the BIOS is not set properly.
> > 
> > I have a screenless laptop from GW-Micro with Windows installed on it,
> > and want to replace the OS with Linux. It's not convenient to get
> > sighted help here to reset the BIOS to allow the CD to take access over
> > the HD, and I bet I am not the first blind guy to have to face this
> > problem. I don't know the Windows version, and don't know which keys
> > might interrupt the boot sequence. Any magic tricks someone might share
> > would be greatly appreciated.  Otherwise I guess I'll just have to wait
> > for the cavalry.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Chuck
> > 
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