[NTLUG:Discuss] installing from usb cdrw

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Thomas Cameron wrote:

>>I am trying to install Mandriva from a ext cdrw.
>>Sys will boot to cd but when it starts 2nd stage(says it is loading
>>program), it says it cant find cdrom and asks for driver disk.
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>>Where would I look for this disk?
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>I suspect it's not so much a driver disk as it is that the PC BIOS can use
>the USB drive as a boot device but then the installer's kernel doesn't
>support it.
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hence the installer request a driver disk......