My kingdom for an optical bootable

In pondering DDS things, I realised that I may need an optical drive (CD) after all. Problem [1] as you may recall, was running out of space in Linux. Maybe a ‘start again’ approach would work. I was, after all, using an old, temporary install of Linux and attempting to bash 🙂 it into shape with it’s 3 ‘new’ hard drives.
Plus, the main problem [2] with Windows not booting, may be solved with a bootable CD and recovery-install.
All things lead me to change the design of DDS. And this after years of planning, diagrams and heartbreak 🙂
I’d take out the smallest hard drive (20 GB) and replace it with the original DVD drive. Went for DVD as it can boot both DVD and CD. Maybe I’ll get Debian 3.02 on a DVD next time.
So, after confirming it wasn’t the main boot drive and quickly trying to get the data off it, this was done. By the most excellent local PC store. And whilst I waited too. (I didn’t actually get the data off, but not an issue as I can grab it via the old Dell Gn PC. Said drive has bootable Debian Linux on it. It was on said Dell PC up until last week)
Thus here we are at 11:53 am and I’m about to boot DDS_V2. With 3 hard drives, 1 DVD drive and 2 fingers crossed.