On Mon, June 21, 2010 7:43 pm, Craig McLean wrote: > Hello. > > > I have a Toshiba Portege R100. This is a really thin laptop, that has no > internal CD drive. It also doesn't really support external USB drives. > You > need a PCMCIA based CD-ROM to boot from CD. > > Is there some kind of boot disk I can use to bootstrap the Ubuntu > installer? I've tried the "Smart Boot Manager" however it also needs BIOS > support for USB CD drives in order to work. > > > I know I could PXE boot this thing to get it moving, however at the > moment I'd prefer not to have to build all of that infrastructure. > > > I've done some googling and found a few schemes that involve multiple > partitions and lots of hand hacking. This all seems far more complicated > than it should be. > > Craig. >
You may be able to hack up ISOLINUX (http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/ISOLINUX), but I'm not totally positive on that. Are you looking for something you can net install with? -Dafydd _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
