I was on a machine which was too old to allow usb boot - someone mentioned that it's possible to use a CD+USB in combination (i.e. the computer boots the CD, but the CD's bootloader then chooses to load the USB OS). didn't try it though
Dan 2010/2/1 grant centauri <[email protected]>: > hello, > > i've been having trouble with an old laptop and its CD drive. In order to > even get pure:dyne to boot I was forced to use a regular CD-R, and when > trying to install I get an I/O error. > > Instead of trying to burn another disc (I did successfully install on > another machine with it after all, plus I'm out of CD-Rs) I thought perhaps > I'd try to make a liveUSB and install from that. However, my machine is old > enough that it doesn't seem to want to boot from USB at all. So after a > frustrating night, I decided the easiest thing I could think of to get a > puredyne realtime kernel and start doing stuff was to grab the old leek and > potato kernel on my already running debian system and go from there. > > my goal was to get this laptop with a stable realtime setup so I can use it > for a performance next saturday. I could run just from the liveCD, but I > don't really want to chance something going wrong in the middle of a set. > For now, this solution seems okay, but I would like access to the newer > software and kernel. > > I guess I'm just bringing it up in case anyone had any solutions or work > arounds in case something like this happens to anyone else. > > I was thinking that perhaps I could make a partition on the drive to be a > liveHD install of C&C? It seemed like the make-live-device script wouldn't > work for that because of an issue where if I put /dev/sda3 it was trying to > create partitions /dev/sda31 and /dev/sda32. Perhaps there's a minor change > to the script that could be made to allow it to live on a partition of a > drive? Or perhaps there's another method to put the ISO somewhere and make > it bootable? It seemed like there was a way with leek&potato, but I wasn't > sure with C&C. > > Any ideas? > > -grant > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > -- http://www.mcld.co.uk --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
