Installing to a USB Drive without a HD and not making it a "live CD".

[Karl F. Larsen]

Knapp wrote:
> Hello,  I have a computer with a dead HD.

	How do you know the hard drive is bad? Please explain.


  I can boot it with the live
> Xubuntu CD (other don't work, to big).


	Please explain how you boot a bad hard drive. Could the hard 
drive be just fine?


  I can make the USB 8mb drive
> into a copy of the CD and boot it just fine but when I try to install
> to the USB Drive, the computer will not boot. How do I make the
> computer boot from the USB drive as if it were a HD with a normal
> install on it? I hope this is clear. Maybe I need to make my own
> bootalble ISO with the files I need? For example an ISO with all the
> updates? Don't know how to do that ether. In any case I have a
> complete system installed to the USB; if only I could get it to boot.
> Thanks all.
> 

	Kind of a guess but it sounds like your hard drive is good 
and you have a problem with Grub. You do have Grub?


73 Karl




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