[mdlug] Alienware doesn't support boot from CD?

[Jeff Hanson]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Robert Jim Fulner<fulner at gmail.com> wrote:
> So my wife just got a brand new shiny Alienware Desktop. I threw the old
> KNOPPIX cd in the machine to boot and Windows starts as normal. Hmmm...first
> thought was that this was the first PC i'd used that didn't have boot off of
> CD first was default. Restarted, went to BIOS, and the BIOS didn't give boot
> from CD as an option. Had boot from USB, several network options and
> Harddisk. Is there anyway I can get it too boot Knoppix, preferably without
> spending one of my USB flash drives.
>

You can boot Knoppix from an ISO on a DHCP server set up with network
booting.  A USB FLASH drive would be easier.