Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix1.panix.com!not-for-mail From: vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: old linux, newer PC, CD settings Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:59:48 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Samani Marions Panyaught NYC-11357-3436-287-USA Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:59:48 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix1.panix.com:166.84.1.1"; logging-data="19234"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: tin/2.6.0-20210823 ("Coleburn") (NetBSD/9.3 (amd64)) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37525 In by Bobbie Sellers on Sun, 12 Mar 2023 03:12:28 we perused: *+-On 2/26/23 11:15, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote: *+-> What CD settings does an old (say 2005) Linux expect to see on the CDROM? *+-> *+-> (UEFI,ATA,SATA...) *+-On my old Good Quality brand not sturdy laptop the boot was Lilo or *+-Grub! rather than GRUB2, IDE was the main storage interface and it *+-had a rw DVD/CD drive.Microsoft Boot Record was on the disk along with *+-Windows XP and we had only a few partitions within a Logical Partition. *+-USB for the External backup drive. *+- *+-bliss up to late. Gosh, I had tried LILO years ago IDE.. maybe this is a clue thanks -- Vasos Panagiotopoulos panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---