Does booting from USB stick work? I have seen some USB ports being bootable while others in the same system are NOT bootable (IE 1 out of 3 USB ports are bootable in the same device).
If so you can use unetbootin to build a bootable USB stick. -sig -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig McLean Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 7:43 PM To: 'CLUG General' Subject: [clug-talk] BootStrap Ubuntu Install with a floppy 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. _______________________________________________ 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 ************************************************************************ This e-mail message is intended only for the person(s) named above and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the person named or have not been authorized by them to access their mail, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail and any attachments without reading, saving, or forwarding. ************************************************************************ _______________________________________________ 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
