Hi,
I need a bit of help.
I have an old laptop with a broken CDROM (no floppy drive).
I want to install Mint on it said laptop. But I'm not sure how I'm going to achieve it.
At the moment I have XP on the HD, which was installed by putting the HD into another laptop with a working CDROM, and coping the i386 folder and installing from there.
I also have an external CDROM, which the old laptop wont boot from - although it will boot a USB Pen Drive oddly enough.
Cheers for any thoughts.
Install Mint without a CDROM
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Install Mint without a CDROM
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I have 3, but for some reason the only one that will boot is the smallest one which is only 128Mb. The other ones are 256 and 512.clem wrote:how big is your USB Pen Drive ? I suppose you could transfer the content of the CDROM to the USB Pen drive and take it from there.
Clem
At the moment I have DSL on the 128 - I can boot (as I just tried it) into that ok.
I was thinking on the lines of - how I could access my USB CDROM in DSL, setup the HD and transfer something that way, but I'm kinda out of my dept.
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Re: No CDROM
Thanks for your thoughts Edward.
Nah I can't boot a CDROM unfortunately, only with the HDD in a surrogate laptop.
Not sure I can get the laptop on network once I've vapped XP.
I kinda have a chicken and egg problem.
I think I'll have to try installing Mint to the HDD from the surrogate laptop, then fit the HDD back in the original - and hope that works.
I do have a 3.5 to 2.5 IDE cable that I could use to plug my laptop HDD into my desktop. But, I'm not sure how that would help - yet.
Nah I can't boot a CDROM unfortunately, only with the HDD in a surrogate laptop.
Not sure I can get the laptop on network once I've vapped XP.
I kinda have a chicken and egg problem.
I think I'll have to try installing Mint to the HDD from the surrogate laptop, then fit the HDD back in the original - and hope that works.
I do have a 3.5 to 2.5 IDE cable that I could use to plug my laptop HDD into my desktop. But, I'm not sure how that would help - yet.
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Re: USB
Thanks Edward, I appreciate the links - I'll have a longer look when I get home from work tomorrow.Hiko96786 wrote:Found this on installing from a pendrive
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Yeah I think you're right - the only issues I've had, albeit trying to boot MS DOS, is loading USB CDROM drivers, without a conflict to the USB Pen.Bunny wrote:Here's one that doesn't need a flash drive big enough for the iso (I'm assuming you could just use a flash drive instead of a floppy disk):
I'm in my lunch break, but I'll have a look when I get home later.
Although, what am I saying, I am home - I get nearly always come home for lunch!