[Novalug] Any way to trick an old PC to boot from a DVD?

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Thu Dec 25 18:30:44 EST 2014


If you have a decent network, you can setup DVD on a server as an
install point (webserver) and do a network install from the other.

So, slow computer, use a boot media for network install. On another
server, setup a webserver to be where network installer looks. Not as
fast as DVD but better then pull from internet.

On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Ed James via Novalug
<novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
> So - finally got the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS net-install to work.  Had to update
> the DNS info in my router, run the net-install from the CD that I burned,
> *then* apt-get the desktop, *then* apt-get gpm, *then* do a few tweaks.  It
> was SOOOOOO much easier installing everything all at once from a DVD.
>
> Except a couple of my boxen don't boot from DVD.
>
> Been researching for a BIOS upgrade that might allow the boxen to boot from
> DVD, but that looks like a dead end.
>
> So, is there any way to "trick" a machine into booting from a DVD by
> getting it to think it's a different type of hardware?  Ya, silly question,
> but I gotta ask.  The simple thing of swapping positions of the DVD and CD
> drives on the IDE cable (and moving the master/slave jumpers) didn't work.
>
> FWIW - it won't boot from USB, but that would also be nice.
>
> Ed James
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