• Booting from a portable hard drive
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I downloaded a Linux distro (that was being given away for free, no warez involved), and put it on my portable HDD. Leaving it in the bootable ISO format, I plugged it into my laptop, changed the lauch setting to boot from the USB drive first, and tried it. It keeps telling me to insert a bootable disk. Is there something else I need to do? Do I need to extract the stuff from the ISO first, maybe?
Your HDD must be clear of any data before doing this: [url]http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/[/url] Then I think you can make a separate partition to have bulk data.
[QUOTE=rosar0980;28894165]I downloaded a Linux distro (that was being given away for free, no warez involved)[/QUOTE] There's only a few distros that actually cost money, it's not that we thought it'd be warez anyway. Anyhow, what Hypershadsy said. Or you could use unetbootin. The point is that just dropping the ISO in there ain't gonna make it bootable.
I figured I'd need some special program after it didn't work the first time. Thanks guys :respek:
Okay, now that I have it downloaded and all ready, I'm having another problem. I posted in the Linux forum, but I haven't gotten a response. I load it up, and I get a command prompt that says "boot:" I tried typing in xubuntu, ubuntu, etc. but it said it couldn't find the kernel image. What do I do?
Would you mind telling us the distro? I got that message when I 1. Accidentally downloaded the command line install version 2. My .iso was damaged
Sorry hehe. It's Xubuntu 10.1 64-bit
Start X I think is the command to load the gui if that's what you mean.
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