Hi, This looks interesting: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/11/15/usb-boot-cd-for-ubuntu-810/ Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Brent Harding Sent: 22 November 2008 22:02 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] floppy or CD that will load USB and then cause it to be booted? Hi there. Is there an easy way to make a floppy or CD that will have a boot loader on it that will then boot up whatever OS I want off of an external USB hard drive? I want to install Ubuntu with Orca on an external drive, but I have no way of booting it because as far as I know, my board has no bios support for USB booting. Maybe some boot loader installed on a floppy or CD could do it. I'd rather not have to play around with repartitioning and dealing with FS for lots of reactivations if I adjust the size, or enter the wrong command and wipe Windows out as well. Is there a good way to do this? Maybe I can flash the Bios, but friends have created more trouble with that, and I don't want to replace lots of components just to get USB booting. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins