[Deaf-lug] USB Installation

[Fintan Gaughan]

Ah great to hear that.
I thought your cd player did not work when you said optical drive.
Does not matter I read it wrong but glad your sorted.

I did that method USB Startup Disk Creator  but did not work for me,
might be a rubbish USB that i have..

Fintan


* Dafydd Eveleigh <dafydd at evejam.co.uk> [2009-06-11 18:08:05 +0100]:

> Hi guys
> 
> Just to let you know that I used a spare laptop in work to build a USB  
> boot using
> 
> System --> Administration --> USB Startup Disk Creator.
> 
> Now installing the updates and everything is hunky dory :-)
> 
> Thanks for your help guys .
> 
> Dafydd
> 
> On 11 Jun 2009, at 09:48, Fintan Gaughan wrote:
> 
> > another option is to borrow and external dvd/cd player!
> >
> > I haven't had much luck  installing ubuntu on a USB drive but that  
> > was ages ago.
> > Not fimilar with Appple so I cant help you there.
> >
> > Cant think of any other ideas except installing from a network...
> >
> >
> > Fintan
> >
> >
> > 2009/6/10 Dafydd Eveleigh <dafydd at evejam.co.uk>:
> >> Dear all
> >>
> >> I do hope you an help.
> >>
> >> I needed to do a fresh install on my laptop. After the drive was
> >> partitioned the laptop stopped reading the disk, which leads me to
> >> conclude the optical drive is faulty (It is an old laptop).
> >>
> >> So I am left with a laptop that I cannot use at the moment!!!!
> >>
> >> As a work around I know you can install from a USB flash disk.  
> >> However
> >> looking at the forums most of them talk about requiring ubuntu or
> >> windows to create a USB boot-up disk, I don't have either.
> >>
> >> So I tried just copying the files from the installation disk to the
> >> USB, needless to say it doesn't work. I do know my laptop will read
> >> the USB disk on startup so need to find a way to create a USB
> >> installation disk.
> >>
> >> The only operating system I have at my disposal is an iMac with Mac  
> >> OS
> >> X 10.5 (Leopard).
> >>
> >> Many Thanks in advance
> >>
> >> Dafydd
> >>
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