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		cesarb on Nov 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony Doesn't the laptop boot from the DVD drive? If it's already busy being used for the operating system, it can't be used for input/output.

scintill76 on Nov 12, 2015 [–]

Add another optical drive. The USB they've already got would probably be OK, as an optical disc is more "inert" than a USB flash drive.

Or, you could probably copy the OS from the initial DVD to a ramdisk, allowing to insert a new disc to load data from.

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