8.10 impressions

[Eberhard Roloff]

Knapp wrote:
  > Sounds really good. I am still holding out hope that the devs make
> this look good.
> 
> In about 2 weeks I am going to try to install it to my brothers laptop
> guiding him over the internet (There are no details about the laptop
> because it is not standard and getting info out of xp is not something
> I am good at). Not easy to do! In the past this has not worked out
> because the CD will not boot is system.
> 
> Anyone have a check list for booting a really hard to boot system. As
> in try this, and if not that then this, etc? I would be a real help. I
> am thinking of just having him use the alt CD to hopefully avoid
> problems.

If the CD Drive is working, just not booting, there is a sure cure for 
it: Smart Bootmanager.

This is bootet AFTER Bios from the mbr and then offers a menu that let's 
you decide where to boot from.

Up to now, I still have to find a computer that does not boot from CD 
with this. Even the very first compaq PI/75hz Laptop models, that did 
not even know that you can boot from CD, boot Linux from CDRom with 
smart bootmanager.

Recently it worked wonders for me on a PIII/733 that had a proper BIOS 
entry to first boot from CD but for the heart of me I could not make it 
work. After installing smart bootmanager, this one now boots Microsoft 
ERD, RIP Linux and anything else from CD.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/


The install from DOS or Linux takes 30 seconds, removal is dead easy and 
it works from harddisk and from floppy (should your laptop be one of the 
very few models that can use a floppy and CD, simultaneously.

It would be perfect if it could make usb boot possible. However, 
whenever you need to boot from your internal CD and can't, try this one 
and you can.

kind regards
Eberhard