[plug] booting from a usb cdrom drive without bios support

[Paul Arch]

Caleb Duggan wrote:
> Im determined to get gentoo working this time.  The drive in the 
> computer just dosent like the cd for some reason but it works in other 
> machines.  I might try installing it on another machine.  I just want 
> to experiment with it and if i manage to get it working well, ill put 
> it on my main computer(long term plan).
>
> <snip>
I can't help much with your immediate problem at hand, but if you want 
to experiment with linux installations etc. , vmware have released a 
free version of their player which allows you to run guest operating 
systems under a host ( linux or windows )

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

Available for your choosing is a wide variety of pre-configured images 
for downloading and playing around with ( eg. heaps of different linux 
distros, asterisk, IPcop ) allowing you to get a feel for things before 
committing to a proper install.  Or of course you can setup a new linux 
installation from scratch and operate this from within vmware

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/browserapp.html

I occasionally run three different linux guests under a windows host at 
any one time - performance isn't identical to if you were running on 
real host, but it does what I need. ( SuSE 10.0 for utility compiling, 
SuSE 8.1 for backwards compatibility, and a SuSE 8.1 embedded system for 
testing all in one go )

cheers

 Paul