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Installing MDK10 from USB CD-ROM - Help!


oRGy
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Hey all

 

My pc's regular cdrom drive is screwed, so I have to use my usb cd-rom drive. Unfortunately this only works in windows. However, mdk92 allowed a boot image to boot from a floppy and read from a usb cdrom:

 

hdcdrom_usb.img install from a hard-disk or a cdrom connected to USB

 

However, tried to do this, but uh, the image isn't in the mdk10 cd. It was in the 9.2 one though. I'm using the download edition.

 

I haven't tried the normal cdrom.img (maybe they've updated it to include usb support) but if that doesn't work I'm a bit screwed. :/

 

Can anyone shed some light on this matter?

 

-edit-

 

apparently it's an omission. I wrote the hdcdrom_usb image from 10.0 beta2 (d/led from web), is it a good idea to install from this? any other options? responses soon would be great!

 

also, installing from hd not really an option as my hd is only 4gb in size!

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No-one?

 

I tried the 10.0 beta 2 hdcdrom_usb, but I didn't quite like the look of it and it gave some odd errors.

 

So I tried the normal cdrom.img, that of course only worked with my ide (broken) cdrom which is no good.

 

Hm. I have the 9.2 discs, could I install 9.2 and then install 10.0 on top of it, without having to reboot and fiddle around?

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Well, I emailed the guy at mandrake who according to anthill is responsible for squashing this bug, and the only response I get is:

 

"Doesn't your BIOS support boot from usb-cdrom?"

 

:wall:

 

Well, obviously not, otherwise I wouldn't be asking for hdcdrom_usb.img, would I? My BIOS is from '99 and no such option is present.

 

Maybe I should look into another distro or something, Mandrake seems to be a bit flaky...

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