booting from CD, shortcuts anyone?

[Tony Baechler]

What about grub4dos?  I haven't used it, but presumably it runs under 
DOS.  Also, you can install grub to a boot floppy and you could try to 
boot a CD via the floppy with grub.  Finally, I don't know how 
accessible it is and there might be cost involved, but you could look at 
http://www.bootitng.com/ which is also a boot loader.  This is all 
assuming that you can somehow access DOS or a command prompt in Windows, 
or somehow you can at least boot a live CD once to make the boot floppy.

Alastair Irving wrote:
> The only way I could possibly suggest would be to try and boot from cd 
> using your bootloader.  However, this will probably involve installing 
> a new bootloader with the capability to boot from cd and configuring 
> it appropriately.  This should in principle all be possible from 
> within windows, but I expect it would be difficult.  Also, if you mess 
> it up you could end up not able to boot.  You're probably best waiting 
> for someone sighted with access to a screen.