oRGy Posted July 29, 2004 Report Share Posted July 29, 2004 (edited) 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! Edited July 29, 2004 by oRGy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oRGy Posted July 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oRGy Posted July 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 (edited) 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?" 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... Edited July 30, 2004 by spinynorman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted July 30, 2004 Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 Why not fix your cdrom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oRGy Posted July 31, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2004 I do not have the money to fix my cd-rom. If I could, I would. Sigh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted August 1, 2004 Report Share Posted August 1, 2004 What kind of motherboard is it? 99 is not that old in terms of bioses.. Maybe your motherboard manufacturer has an updated bios available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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