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

Alexander Rydekull linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:44:13 +0200


Right, forgot, I believe one ran Slackware, dunno which one though

Alexander Rydekull wrote:

> That sounds weird, all of us together have covered atleast these 
> distributions.
>
> Debian(Of all sorts)
> Knoppix 3.4 tried atleast
> Ubuntu(of all sorts)
> Gentoo (All sorts)
> 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
>>  
>>
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