How to run the Alternate CD from USB-Stick?

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Hadmut Danisch <hadmut at danisch.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:21:52PM +0800, Narcissus wrote:
>> Do you inform the kernel of where the alternate image is?
>
>
> No, but this does not seem to be the problem, syslinux seems to deal
> with it.
>
> What I try right now is to skip the error message and to manually
> mount the USB drive onto /cdrom, which works. But then I run into
> the next error message: Load installer componentes from CD - There was
> a problem reading data from the CD-ROM....

just a wild guess - but I would think it expects the cd to be at
/dev/cdrom and/or /mnt/cdrom0 or similar,  not /cdrom

You could boot a regular desktop from the cdrom and see where it's
mounted (via the mount command), then recreate that setup on your Wind
and see if it helps.

Brian