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Old 05-28-2005, 08:37 PM   #1
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Installing with a usb cd-drive


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?
 
Old 05-29-2005, 12:42 AM   #2
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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.
 
Old 05-29-2005, 10:17 AM   #3
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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.
 
Old 05-29-2005, 12:34 PM   #4
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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.
 
Old 06-20-2005, 10:54 AM   #5
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ext3 is the filesystem that Linux uses. That's a big error if it can't load it.
 
  


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