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Near-dead laptop into a DVD player?

fatherdougalmag · 2004-02-18 15:46:46

Hi all, I have acquired a laptop with a knackered HD. I was wondering if anyone's aware of a DOS-based DVD player that I could run of a floppy so I could still use it as a DVD player. Failing that, an AVI/Divx player for DOS would also interest me. Or would a live Linux distro do the trick?

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18-02-2004 4:46pm

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fatherdougalmag

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Hi all,
I have acquired a laptop with a knackered HD. I was wondering if anyone's aware of a DOS-based DVD player that I could run of a floppy so I could still use it as a DVD player. Failing that, an AVI/Divx player for DOS would also interest me. Or would a live Linux distro do the trick?

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#2 18-02-2004 5:00pm
omathuna

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There maybe something for you on this page.
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/linux/

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#3 18-02-2004 5:08pm
Matt Simis

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Originally posted by fatherdougalmag
Hi all,
I have acquired a laptop with a knackered HD. I was wondering if anyone's aware of a DOS-based DVD player that I could run of a floppy so I could still use it as a DVD player. Failing that, an AVI/Divx player for DOS would also interest me. Or would a live Linux distro do the trick?

Could use a boot from CD Linux distro, like Knoppix or simply replace the HDD..

Matt

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