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Old 01-12-2012, 10:42 PM   #1
mu50stang
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USB CD won't load

I dug up an old laptop of mine vaio pcg-k47, and the cd rom drive is shot on it. I installed PLOP program that would let me boot from an external cd-rom drive or usb because the bios didn't allow it. When I put the debian cd into my usb cd rom I keep getting the error isolinux.bin missing or corrupt. I've used the same cd on other computers and not had this issuse.
 
Old 01-13-2012, 09:29 AM   #2
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Have you tried the solutions in this page?

USB boot/install
 
Old 01-13-2012, 05:57 PM   #3
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Plop doesn't support booting to a usb cd drive last time I checked.
 
Old 01-13-2012, 06:04 PM   #4
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Can you replace the bad CD drive?

With old laptop hardware I found Distro Antix to be the only solution in some cases.
 
Old 01-13-2012, 06:54 PM   #5
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Plop doesn't support booting to a usb cd drive last time I checked.
Unless I did not understand you right, PLOP does support USB boot unless I understood it wrong!PLOP features
 
  


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