| ShawnR | so i'm trying to install ubuntu on a spare PC, the mobo only supports booting from USB CD-ROM drives, but not flash drives and I don't have any blank DVDs laying around. i know unetbootin will make a flash drive bootable to install the ISO, but it won't appear as a USB CD-ROM. Anyone know of a method to get this to work? | 03:26 |
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| rmcbride | Not off the top of my head, no. Sorry. I haven't seen a motherboard that wouldn't boot of a USB stick in quite a while. | 03:50 |
| ShawnR | http://www.pendrivelinux.com/booting-linux-from-usb-zip-on-older-systems/ | 04:00 |
| ShawnR | i found directions for doing it for a zip drive emulation, but dunno what the head/sector counts should be for a cd-rom | 04:00 |
| ShawnR | or if it'd work | 04:00 |
| ShawnR | yeah, it's not TOO old of a system... i think it's running an E2180 or something similar | 04:01 |
| rmcbride | that should be new enough that it would just be a matter of chaninging the BIOS boot order I would think | 11:29 |
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