Boot off USB on Non-USB supported PC.


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Hey,

I am going to put Linux on my USB Pen drive. The issue is some of the PC's I will encounter will not directly support USB Booting. Is there a CD, or something I can boot from that'll then boot from my pen drive?

Cheers

Simsie.

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As far as I know, there isnt a CD that can do this, as this really is down to the BIOS. Do you need a persistant linux install? Because if not you could use a live cd.

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It'll be a USB install of PCLinuxOS (as that is what I am familiar with).

I need to be able to alter it and for the Pen drive to remember the changes.

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Most of the above posts assume booting from the USB device.

However, if you look around, you should be able to find steps to boot from an alternate media that reads your USB device.

As an example, here is a DamnSmallLinux wiki article that shows how to boot a floppy that reads your DSL install on the USB stick.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/USB_Booting

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The boot floppy is exactly the sort of thing I am looking for! Cheers Mark!

Do you know if it'll work with a different Linux Distro, or is it strictly DSL?

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It work with everything if grub is correctly pointing to you kernel.

And yes, there is cd and pocket card cd made to boot usb device, i think that mandriva did provide one with his live product, but it is just a grub loader anyway, it take 2 min to build and 10 sec to burn.

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