Installing LE2005 using a USB CDROM drive.

mastercylinder · 08-06-2006, 06:00 AM

Hi

I'm trying to do a minimal install of LE2005 onto my ancient laptop. The machine has no CDROM drive, but does have a USB port. Unfortunately I can't boot from USB. I've tried several methods but so far failed. Anyone know where I can find a floppy image with USB support?

Thanks

-Andrew

Ixthusdan · 08-08-2006, 10:47 PM

The floppy ingredients are on the cdrom! Could you load the iso through a network? You can install from the drive if you can load the iso.

mastercylinder · 08-12-2006, 01:45 AM

I have no network card on the machine. I finally managed to solve the problem after about 12 hours and Loadlin. I copied the isolinux folder to my hard disk in a small FAT partition and ran Loadlin from there. It would not work when I booted a floppy with MSDOS and USB cdrom support for some unknown reason.

Thanks anyway

-Andrew