[SOLVED] Installing on an Old Laptop

[rokytnji]

Yes. I showed it is possible to boot LL from usb when bios does not support it

https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/index...93#msg6993

If CD drive is toast as you say and you have a floppy drive. I have also a floppy disk with a PLOP boot manager
that works just like the cd.

1. Floppy

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.

http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/plpbt.bin.html#runflp