On Monday 01 January 2007 17:52, Robert Lewis wrote: > I am not sure if this is helpful. When I last installed 10.2 into a > machine that had > two DVD drives I found them both to be defective. Probably needs cleaning.
I can't find a power supply small enough with the extra amperage needed to carry more devices *and* the (very short) IDE cables are fully populated *and* the (small) chassis is already crammed full. It's gotta be an alternate procedure on this one. > I also have a USB external DVD drive. I plugged it into the machine and was > amazed that the BIOS found it and that it installed perfectly. No such external subsystem here and I'm out in the boonies with ice on the roads. :-) > I have also installed by having a USB harddrive with a Linux partition on > it and the entire DVD copied to the drive with all the directories and > files. I did this by mounting the image with the -o loop option and then a > recursive copy to a directory on said media. This is similar to what I need to do, but I already know how to proceed *after* I've booted the installation kernel from grub. Thanks for the offer and happy new year! Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
