Installing with a usb cd-drive

dom02 · 05-28-2005, 08:37 PM

I'm trying to install ubuntu onto my computer but all I have at the moment is an external usb cd-drive, my internal dvd burner just died. How do I boot up from a usb cd drive? Are there any bootdisks that will recognize a usb cd-drive?

BigNate · 05-29-2005, 12:42 AM

Your bios has to support booting via USB for that to work. Or alternatively as you mentioned...using a boot diskette. That is something I have never done, however I am sure a google search or two ought to turn up a disk that does that.

dom02 · 05-29-2005, 10:17 AM

yea I've been looking for a bootdisket off of google but haven't found anything yet, I'm pretty bad at finding the right key words to search.

dom02 · 05-29-2005, 12:34 PM

well I found a different solution. I found something on ubuntuforums.org that explained how to load the installer from a HD and that worked well. But now I am having problems partitioning my SATA hd. It recognizes the HD and starts to partitions it but than it says failed to load ext3 or something along those lines.

stalefries · 06-20-2005, 10:54 AM

ext3 is the filesystem that Linux uses. That's a big error if it can't load it.