Guest tk02452 Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 I am trying to install 10.1 onto my laptop. The problem is that the laptop doesnt have a built in cdrom drive and it cant boot to a USB cd drive. I am using a iomega zipcd drive connected by USB 1.1. I was able to boot to the 9.1 install using the hdcdrom_usb.img, but the install froze repeatidly. I have given up on that version and moved to 10.1 only to find that boot disk image had been removed and the cdrom.img comes back saying "no cdrom found". Any help is greatly appreciated. Hardware: Twinhead Laptop RAM : 256 CPU : Pentium II - 233 Internet Connection : wireless Hard disk : unknown - 4.5 GB CD / DVD ROM : USB - Iomega ZipCD Video card : On Board Trident - shared memory Sound card : on board Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 could you hook it up with a wired LAN connection temporarily and do a network install instead? That's usually the easiest option for this kind of eccentric hardware... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tk02452 Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 I can't do a wired ethernet install, but I could do a wireless 802.11b install. I dont know if that is possible. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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