Guest kirkbill Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Hi all I did not find the img file that lets you boot from an external (usb) cd drive. I succesfully installed MDK 9.2 from an external cd drive, but in the 10.0 - 10.1 cds this file seems to be missing. I really need this method to upgrade because my laptop's cd drive does not work, so I went usb. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 If your computer is capable of booting from the USB drive, you wont need the image. If your computer cant boot from the usb drive, try just using the image from 9.2 it might work :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kirkbill Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 No it doesn't. I tried, and it boots but the when installation begins, it complains because kernel in installation media is not the same as in boot media. Maybe the trick is to generate a boot disk from the image in 9.2 and then do some hack in this disk to change the kernel. Any idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 Even though the documentation refers to it, that image is missing in both 10.0 and 10.1. I have no idea why. If you have a floppy drive, you can try doing an ftp install with the network image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reebop Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 I have this same problem. My internal cdrom drive is flakey about reading cdroms and I wish to use my external burner as well. I have a HP N5195 notebook, and it does not support USB device booting. After much research on Google, this has been a problem since Mandrake 10.0 Official was released. There was a bug report submitted about the missing hdcdrom_usb.img, but nothing was done about it. The answers I found for this so far is "do a ftp install", "buy a new computer", "copy the distribution to your harddrive and install from that" or "I'm switching to Gentoo / Ubuntu / <fill in any distro here, it rocks!>" The unfortunate thing is that the reference for hdcdrom_usb.img still resides in the installation readme on the first cdrom. The first solution I may end up doing, the second is sheer fantasy, the third may be a possible option and the fourth is that I've used Mandrake since the version 6 days, RedHat since 3.0.3 and I believe that this problem can be solved. I don't know the first thing about creating my own hdcdrom_usb.img file. Learning to create this file may be the solution that we need for this. I feel it is important to have this way of installation....you never know when you may need it at a friend's house, at a client's office or during an emergency situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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