[ltp] Alternative to buying a CDR/DVD-ROM for x4 ultrabase

Alexander Rydekull linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:41:58 +0200


That sounds weird, all of us together have covered atleast these 
distributions.

Debian(Of all sorts)
Knoppix
Ubuntu(of all sorts)
Gentoo
Fedora Core 3

FreeBSD

All have worked all ok.

/Alexander Rydekull

Peter Randow wrote:

>Hi
>
>
>* How have we installed our laptops?
>* With all kinds of different methods, really, you name it and we have 
>* done it. But the most common is by using a USB-CDROM.
>
>Which Linux Distributions will boot and install from USB-CDROM?
>
>I have tried
>Mandrake 7.2
>Fedorca Core 3
>Knoppix
>Mandrake 10.2
>
>None of these would recognize my USB-CDROM after the kernel was loaded
>and wanted to mount the drives.
>
>Only luck so far: MDK10.2 with alt1 kernel (the old one 2.4 something)
>
>Greetings from Berlin
>Peter
>  
>