Of course the first google hit is https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromUSB.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Matt McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all. > I have tried a bit of Google-fu but so far just getting articles about > booting from either DVD or USB. > In my case I kind of want to do both. > > My laptop is an older beast, Pentium M 32bit aka Centrino. It is a > whitebox unit made by Compal (not Compaq), model CL50, I have had it for > many years and it runs Linux well. > Only real problem with it, it cannot boot from USB. I have checked for > updates to BIOS, it has the latest that was available for this motherboard. > > I have Linux Mint 13 on it, and want to do a fresh install of Mint 14. I > have Mint 14 image on a USB drive, and the Mint 13 live DVD. > I was hoping to find a way to boot the live DVD, then tell it to continue > loading from the flash drive, so I can install. This would save having to > burn more DVDs for each upgrade. > I tried fiddling with the options the live DVD has, it does have an option > to boot local disk, but that means hard drive. > I would like to boot from USB flash drive. The syntax it uses is > unfamiliar, I don't know if it is newer GRUB or it isn't GRUB at all. > > If possible I could use a SuperGRUB boot CD (pretty sure I have one, if not > I could of course burn that). I just want to try to get off the treadmill > of burning new DVDs for each release. > > If anyone has actually done this sort of thing I would appreciate pointers, > otherwise I'll just keep digging probably in GRUB or Mint forums etc. > Thanks. > > ---------- > Matt M. > LinuxKnight > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
