Is this not getting a bit over complicated ? I just made a bootable USB thumb drive (or flash drive or whatever they are called now) and plugged it in.
Press ESC during BIOS stage and then select device to boot from. I have a bootable drive with Ubuntu loaded and can give it to you. Do you want 9.10 or 9.04 ? On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:41 +0000, Peter Merchant wrote: > On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 01:03 +0000, Andrew Morgan wrote: > > Simon O'Riordan wrote: > > > I've got the HP Mini with Suse, but there is(obviously) no optical drive. > > > How do you put 9.04 onto it? > > > > > I have done the installation of Ubuntu on my EeePC using a USB CD drive. > > Usually one connected via a USB <> ATA adapter. I'm surprised more > > people don't seem to do this... > > > > From memory you press ESC during the BIOS stage to chose the boot drive. > > > > -- > > > > Andrew. > > > > > > USB<> ATA Adapter? Where did you get it? Who makes it? How can I get > one? > > Christmas is coming. > > Peter M. > > -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
