[qiqitori]

Hmm, a bit hazy on the details and of course entirely possible that I misunderstood something fundamental at the time, but...

I donated a "Frankenstein" PC to our high school classroom (or added random parts that were missing to an existing one -- can't remember) and had a regular CD drive and a SCSI harddisk attached to a SCSI controller. The motherboard's BIOS didn't know how to boot from the SCSI harddisk so I put a bootloader and kernel on a CD and used that to boot from the harddisk.

Worked like a charm. Ran enlightenment for the looks and played a lot of clanbomber with a classmate!

Edit: Aw, looks like clanbomber isn't in the Debian repositories anymore. Shame :(

Edit2: I think I slept on the couch at the local hackerspace (with fast internets) after getting that system to run (and brought the computer to school on the next day). Nostalgia~