Boot CD or floppy to run a USB install ?

Forum: USB booting
Topic: Boot CD or floppy to run a USB install ?
started by: secristrc

Posted by secristrc on Mar. 29 2005,23:56

My hardware doesn't boot USB. Can I do a floppy or CD boot into a USB install ? This way I can run on any machine, install stuff, etc. If so, any pointers on how, articles, howtos, etc. ?

Thanks !
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Posted by sonny73044 on Mar. 30 2005,01:54

Well I know this will boot a cd on machines that don't support it (I've used it for this) and the author says it will try to load usbaspi.sys so it's worth a try (but you are probably stuck to cd's) Look for Bootable CD Loader v1.50Z: bcdl150z.zip at
< http://www.wolfgang-brinkmann.de/bcdw/index_e.htm >

Posted by ryptyde on Mar. 30 2005,02:33

You want to get the "bootusb-0.8.img" from the DSL repository and use "rawrite" to write it to a floppy if you are using Windows.

I've placed DSL on a 256MB Lexar JumpDrive with the "optional" folder and booted from the floppy.

There is a "boot-0.8.0.img" for booting a CD-R from floppy also.

I've copied the DSL files to the root of the hdd and just use the cd-r boot floppy to boot DSL from the hdd and also have an "optional" folder there with "extra goodies" available too. That is on a box running Win XP. I've also run the same set-up from a Win 98 PII 233mhz.