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Topic: USB Pendrive Boot on Toshiba Portege 3490CT?

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ArchiMark

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Posted: Oct. 04 2007,21:04

Would like to support DSL by purchasing one of the USB Pendrives....

However, before I do, wondering if my ol' Toshiba Portege 3490CT laptop would support this approach?

It does have a USB port, but I know that you can't boot up from an external USB drive, need to either use Toshiba's external DVD drive with Toshiba connector or Toshiba docking station with DVD drive.

Running XP on it now....

If it won't work with this laptop, then I can just install normally and make a donation... :;):

Thanks for any and all advice...

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chaostic

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Posted: Oct. 05 2007,00:29

Quote (ArchiMark @ Oct. 04 2007,17:04)

Running XP on it now....

If it won't work with this laptop, then I can just install normally and make a donation... :;):

Thanks for any and all advice...

Only way to know is to try it. But you already seem convinced it doesn't work. Do you have a floppy drive on the laptop? If so, you can use a floppy to load the bootloader that then loads it from usb.

ArchiMark

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Posted: Oct. 05 2007,01:23

Quote (chaostic @ Oct. 04 2007,17:29)

Thanks for your input, chaostic....

Wouldn't say that I'm convince that it won't work, just making a guess based upon the issue with not being able to boot up with non-Toshiba external CD/DVD drives...

Just wanted some feedback on this....

Thanks.

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Juanito

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Posted: Oct. 05 2007,05:32

If you don't have the bios option to boot from usb, I don't think it will work. You could use a floppy boot "from usb" but that's kind of awkward.

The best thing might be to try a boot from cd to check dsl works on your machine and, if so, partition the hd and go for a frugal hd install.

ArchiMark

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Posted: Oct. 05 2007,14:44

Quote (Juanito @ Oct. 04 2007,22:32)

Thanks for your input, Juanito!

Will try that....

Mark

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