somewhat off-topic - booting from USB drive

[Albin Blaschka]

gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen schrieb:
> thanks - I think that gives me all the hints I need.
> 
> On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 20:38:28 +1000, Sebastian Gil 
> <sebastianhgil at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 2006/6/7, gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen 
>> <gabpaul at melbpc.org.au>:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to diagnose a pair of mostly dead PCs - celeron 700 or there
>>> abouts.
>>>
>>> In particular I'm having trouble booting from CD - CDdrive rarely
>>> recognised. Will boot from HDD - sometimes.

Hello,

Just a thought...
you are sure that with those PCs it is possible to boot from an USB-device?

(Murphy is a good friend of mine ;-)

Albin