[SGVLUG] USB boot from older bios - created a cd instead

[matti]

Hi Robert!

Hey, this is kinda cool...

want to give a quick 10min what I wanted
to do, and what I did presentation
at a meeting on this?

thanks
matti

--- Robert Leyva <mrflash818 at geophile.net> wrote:

> Well,
> 
> I hope I didn't waste too much of everyone's time, but I decided I
> was
> going about all of this the hard way, and took another route:
> 
> Downloaded the Debian Etch netinstall ISO to my wife's M$ desktop.
> Downloaded Alex Feinman's ISORecorder (freeware) as mentioned by the
> Debian Etch installation instructions. Created the netinst CD, put in
> the
> PC and Presto!
> 
> Now installing Etch, which was the whole point of what I wanted to
> do.
> 
> I feel like a newbie again (oh the humility), as I ended up
> repartitioning
> my disk, and therefore overwriting my /home (d'oh!) I did think of
> backing
> up /home to my usb drive, but as previously mentioned, had hosed my
> system
> to the point I couldn't even mount /dev/sda to my usb drive as root.
> 
> Oh well....
> 
> Me
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > (little bit of a long read)
> > ....
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> "Knowledge is Power" -- Francis Bacon
> 
> Robert Leyva
> mrflash818 at geophile.net
> 
> 


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