I tried installing Slackware 9.1 on my laptop, which has nothing but a USB CDROM drive.

Fdisk-ed everything clean, booted up successfully into the Slackware prompt from the CD, set up the swap and target drive.

Then at "Select Source", I chose Slackware CD/DVD.

Drive not found. *cries*

What the heck? It ran from the CD, the CD was running during the setup, and it says I don't have a CDROM drive?

I did several searched and tried the following...

>in case of a scsi cd-rom this is
>#mount /dev/sdc0 -t iso9660 -r /cdrom

"not a valid block device"

From a thread on hardware (bla bla bla which I can't post)

>mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/usb

Doesn't work either.

Did a dmesg, found out that no USB devices were recognized, so it deregistered them all.

Rebooted, tried to cancel the boot process before it can deregister my devices. By some key combo (CTRL-C? CTRL-Z? ESC? whatever, I just hit them all) I managed to stop it before it deregistered the USB devices, still with no luck.

Any ideas? Moi is currently left with a useless computer and is typing this from a netcafe.

Thanks everyone.

Ren

Ok pretty much the bios on your laptop supports booting from a usb device but the kernel on the cd does not support usb cdroms. I had this problem with an ibm X20 laptop.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=125884

ohh and i couldn't get winbloze back on it because it doesn't support usb either. FEDORA and redhat 9 does however. All I did was install the minimal fedora install and during the setup i created a separate partition to put the files from the slack Cd's on and then just put in the slack CD and choose to install from hard drive partition and everything worked great.

Awesome, dude! That sounds like the answer to all my problems. I'm ordering a copy of Fedora right away.

Thanks man, you made my day.

Ren

anytime