[ltp] KUBUNTU Install

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Hi Jörg

Whilst GRUB's very good - even enabling you to edit or even load another
menu.lst file it will only support devices as listed and supported by your
bios.

The a21e does not support booting from usb devices - pen drives or cdroms.
I have created both and have spent a lot of time with GRUB. No bios
support then GRUB will not work. But I like GRUB having had to play with
it :)

My options now are (a) to load an os with networking and usb support via a
floppy install (b) stick hard disk in another machine (IBM) (c) stick hard
disk in a usb case and access via another machine (I have a linux desktop
and another laptop XP). Ok I could buy a CD-drive for the A21E! I also
need to download another ISO and via the desktop Linux create another
install CD.

Fun ...............................

Happy Days

Regards,

David


> Richard, all,
>
> Richard Neill wrote:
>>
>>
>> [[...]]
>>
>> The big problem here is that the *CD* isn't working! SO I think your
>> advice perhaps isn't appropriate in this case. The major problem here is
>> that the usb-cdrom is non bootable. Worse, there is now no working OS on
>> the machine at all, just grub. So I think it's down to one of:
>>
>>  * USB boot  (via USB stick)
>>  * PXE network boot (with TFTP on another machine)
>>  * Floppy disc boot - and hope that the USB CDROM is supported
>>  * Hardware hack - eg remove drive and install in a different machine.
>
> I cannot comment on the pros and cons of these approaches (luckily, I
> could always boot from CD),
> but if your disk is big enough I still maintain you should leave a
> partition free and use it for a second system. However small and
> functionally limited it may be, it will at least allow you to boot your
> machine and do repair work (or get files off it, or ...).
>
> But as you say your grub is working  -  isn't it possible to instruct
> grub (from its command line) to boot from some other device, like the
> CDROM via USB ?
> I admit I never tried, but still it might be worth some searching
> because then you could again run a standard install.
>
>
> Jörg
>
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