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FLoppy boot for Ubuntu live CD



On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:56:51 -0500
Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> wrote:

> Thanks for reading this.
> 
> I've just burned a copy of the Ubuntu live CD, but the machine I want
> to run it on isn't equipped for booting from CD. Please tell me how
> to boot the Ubuntu live CD from floppy: I can't find any reference in
> the docs.

In principle, I imagine it should be possible to put grub on a floppy
and give it a config file that makes it boot the cdrom. I'm not sure
of the details, though. 

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