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Hello I have a old xp and I made a cd but my pc will not boot from a cd it will only boot from floppy disk? Is there a why I can make it boot from a cd. thank you. :

Can you please list as many of the specs as you can. Thank you.

Processor Intel ® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.20 GHz Memory= 2.5 GB Speed =533 MHz I
I can't get it to boot from cd?
Thank you.

Thats just one piece of hardware, where is the rest? Ram, HDD, GPU etc etc

What make and model is this?

Windows Xp Media Center Professional 32-bit SP3
Dell XPS got it in 2004
Ram 2.50GB Dual Channel DDR2 @ 266MHz 4-4-4-12
GPU 128 MB Radeon X300 SE 128MB HYPER Memory (ATI)
HD 78 GB MAXTOR (SATA)
tHANKS

Give this a go - http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16822/boo...t-let-you/

Hi Stretch,

Here are directions from the Plop website to create a floppy boot disk. I use the CD version and it works great. If you try this, post back and let us know how it goes.

Below is a cut and paste from the Plop website
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/plpbt.bin.html#runflp

Quote:A floppy disk image is a file that contains every sector of the floppy disk. You cannot copy the image file on a floppy disk like a common file. It's required to use a special program that writes sector per sector of the image file to the floppy disk sectors. There are many programs available to do this.

Download the current boot manager plpbt-5.0.14.zip. Extract it to get the floppy disk image plpbt.img.

How to create the floppy:

DOS: You can use diskimg.com with diskimg -d a -w plpbt.img

Windows: Write the disk image with the program rawwritewin to the floppy disk

Linux: dd if=plpbt.img of=/dev/fd0

You can configure the plpbt.bin on the floppy with plpcfgbt.

I even booted off of usb

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/index...93#msg6993

Hello!

Is this question is starting to get asked often enough to be considered for inclusion as part of the user manual, or is it just me?

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

(02-05-2015, 11:43 AM)N4RPS link Wrote: [ -> ]Hello!

Is this question is starting to get asked often enough to be considered for inclusion as part of the user manual, or is it just me?

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

Don't know yet, but maybe -- so going to add it to this Help Manual suggestions thread to make sure we don't forget to consider it.

Scratch that.  I just double-checked the manual.  There is already a link to a Plop tutorial on the "Install" manual page for people who need it.