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« on: April 14, 2008, 01:55:41 PM »

When I look into the bios of my multimedia computer, I find 4 categories for booting:
Floppy,
Rom Drive,
HDD
Other

Does 'other' cover such things as a USB stick? When I tunnel down I see nothing else. Though maybe if I inserted a USB stick before the boot it would show.

I'm working not with a monitor but a crt TV and it's a fuzzy process. Trying to avoid taking the thing downstairs.

I intend to install GeeXBox on it rather than using the LiveCD disc.
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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2008, 02:40:48 PM »

Does 'other' cover such things as a USB stick? When I tunnel down I see nothing else. Though maybe if I inserted a USB stick before the boot it would show.

It might. On the machines I've used there was either an option for Removable Media or USB Boot which is sometimes under Hard Drive. In the machine I have now, that's the case. Btw, Buster, you'll be glad to know that I finally got a faster machine - Intel Core Duo 1.86 Gz, 2 GB RAM, 320 GB SATA hard dive, Geforce 8800 GTS video (320 MB onboard) which has dual DVI support, Lightscribe DVD-/+RW Writer, Hauppage TV Tuner, lots of USB ports, Firewire and HDMI. I haven't tried any of the TV tuner stuff yet though I should. We hate commercials.


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I'm working not with a monitor but a crt TV and it's a fuzzy process. Trying to avoid taking the thing downstairs.

A CRT TV? You mean just a regular TV right? Just trying to differentiate from an LCD TV? Don't blame you since so many think of TVs as only LCD or Plasma nowadays. We still have th old kind, too. And only 20" at that! Go ahead - laugh. Grin
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