Well, I think I tried that. I tried all the options. None of them worked.
On Mar 24, 12:52 pm, Xavier Naldo <[email protected]> wrote: > try booting from USB hard drive... > > > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 24, 10:07 am, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yeah, I wish I could do that. Taking the CDs out of the drive can be > > > > a struggle when you restart the machine. My current machine can't > > > > boot from flash drives. If I buy a usb hard drive, then it might > > > > work. > > > > If it can't boot from a flash drive, then it's unlikely to be able to > > > boot from a USB hard drive. > > > I don't know. My computer is kind of weird. The BIOS has a bunch of > > different boot options (CD, USB hard drive, IOMEGA zip disk, etc.) > > But there's nothing there for flash drives. I haven't been able to > > get it to boot from a flash drive. And It'll occassionaly lock up > > when it boots if I forget to unplug a USB mp3 player before > > restarting. My Sansa Express player was causing it lock up. > > > > > But those aren't exactly cheap. They seem to cost considerably > > > > more than regular hard drives. > > > > Get an old EIDE laptop drive. The most number of partitions you can > > > have on a drive is 15 or 16 anyways (you can have more but the OS > > > won't see them). So you only need at most a 20 GB HDD (or get a > > > larger HDD and play musical chairs). Then get a IDE to USB converter > > > for about $25. > > > > > It would be cool to put an army of live cds on one usb hard drive, and > > > > then create a boot option letting you select which one you want to > > > > use. > > > > That's pretty close to my current setup. I designated one partition > > > as vfat with a grub menu for all the distros on the drive. All > > > remaining partitions are individual OSes with grub installed to the > > > first sector of the partition. > > > > Here is an older photo of what that looks like: > > > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwcitek/2547600614/ > > > > Notice one of the options is Knoppix. > > > > Regards, > > > - Robert > > > Oh, that's totally cool. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > Group. > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > > For more options, visit our group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+ > > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > > ME" as the subject.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
