[SLL] Need diskette that boots from CDROM

Tim Maher tim at consultix-inc.com
Tue May 12 09:06:02 PDT 2009


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:46:41AM -0400, Pann McCuaig opined thusly:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 07:50, Tim Maher wrote:
> 
> > At one time, I had a special floppy that I downloaded from the
> > Internet that caused the floppy to boot from the CD, which is exactly
> > what I want to do. But despite extensive Googling, I haven't been
> > able to find this kind of floppy (image) on the 'net today.
> 
> "extensive Googling"? I googled "floppy boot cdrom" and the fourth hit was
> http://rescup.winbuilder.net/bootdisk/
> A quick read suggests that it will do what you want.

I assure you, I did my due diligence in Googling! 8-}  But unlike you, I
provided additional keywords that apparently did more harm than good this
time. In any case, thanks for your input!

Tim
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