USB booting :: booting from USB CDROM w/o BIOS support

I just picked up a LiteOn external USB CD-ROM drive. I'm trying to boot DSL from it using a USB-HDD Floppy, as my EPIA 800 mobo BIOS does not support USB-CDROM booting. No luck so far (I tried fromhd). If someone has done this?
If so, what boot options did you use?

Thanks,

Mark

Is your LiteON USB CDROM drive a standard USB Mass Storage Device? Or do you need to install special drivers in order to get it to work with Windows XP?

If it is not a standard USB Mass Storage Device, then it is unlikely to be bootable from the USB boot floppy.

However, a standard USB pendrive should still work fine.

Also you could try a "Poorman's Install" and copy the contents of the CD over to your hard drive at C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX (note the uppercase letters). This assumes that your hard drive is formatted as FAT or FAT32 (MSDOS/Win95/Win98/WinME) and NOT NTFS (NT/Win2000/WinXP)

cbagger-

Thanks for the suggestion. I had the drive partitioned as a linux (type 83) partition.

I ended up plugging an internal CD-ROM drive into the EPIA 800 temporarily. It only has a 50W power supply, but that seemed enough to power the CDROM & CF card. I then booted the CD & used a traditional HD install.

Thanks again,

Mark

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