On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:15:23AM -0800, Rick Dooling wrote: > Anybody recently installed to an xp machine with no CD drive? > > I followed the "easy way" instructions for copying the necessary Etch > installation files to a USB, but the XP machine would not "see" the > USB drive. > > Then I followed the "install-mbr" instructions to make the usb > bootable. But that appears to wipe out the installation files? All > the XP machine did was print "MBR" and sit there. > > I can't really log into the XP machine, the tech fellows just > installed a separate hard drive and said I could put Debian on it. > Getting it on there is up to me :) > > Any easy way to make the XP machine see the usb drive, boot from it, > and do an install? Try http://goodbye-microsoft.com Worked like a charm when I used it a few weeks ago. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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