A bootable CD but no bootable CDreader . How can I do.

[Neil]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Philippe Didier
<pdidier at neptuneconcept.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On a old computer, I have a CD reader but it does not want to boot the
> CD... any bootable CD (I tried 5 different flavors of Linux).
> As I have the CD Hardy 8.04-1, I do not want to make a full network
> installation.
>
> What is the best way to do now ?
>
> A boot loader in a USB key, then reading the ISO ? Any other way ?
>
> I read about WUBI, but moving it to a real partition and wiping out
> Windows does not look so easy (LPVM...)
>
> FYI, the old Windows can be destroyed.
>
> Philippe
>

Hi

It is possible to boot from USB. I just posted it to this list a
couple of days ago:

You can use different programs to do so. mkbootdisk (I believe) is able
to create a bootable USB disk of up to 2 GB. The ISO should not be
copied to the USB stick as an ISO file but all the files in it should
be copied. You can mount the ISO with "mount cd.iso /mnt/cd -o loop"
and then you should have the files available. "cp -R /mnt/cd/*
/path/to/USB/" should copy all the files

In that same thread Anthony M. Rasat posted:
> You may want to check out Unetbootin, http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
> Yes, it almost as simple as just loading the iso file to Unetbootin and
> let it do the rest.

I do not know this program myself, so I cannot vouch for it (although
it sounds quite easily).

Neil
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