Install Linux to Netbook that will ONLY boot from hard disk?
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From: AZ Nomad on 8 Mar 2010 21:25 On 9 Mar 2010 02:10:07 GMT, John Varela <newlamps(a)verizon.net> wrote: >On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 04:15:48 UTC, Michael Black <et472(a)ncf.ca> wrote: >> On Fri, 6 Mar 2010, John Varela wrote: >> >> > I run an iMac and, within that, OS/2 (as you can see from my >> > headers). >> > >> > I just bought a Samsung N150 netbook with the idea of installing >> > Linux on it. >> > >> > This computer has no CD drive and will not boot from a USB source. I >> > have been into the BIOS set-up and it will ONLY boot from the hard >> > drive. >> > >> That seems unlikely. >But true. In the BIOS set-up for boot sequence, the top item is "USB >CD (N/A)". The help says "<Shift + 1> enables or disables a >device". It doesn't. <Shift + 1> just makes a beep. >> Try plugging a USB device into the netbook, see >> if booting from USB becomes an option then. >It doesn't. many bioses are very primative about booting from usb, expecting the geometry of a floppy or zip drive. HP has a utility that formats a memory stick and puts either a copy of dos, or an open sourced dos replacement. I use it for flashing bioses. (you might also see about upgrading our bios to the latest). I might let you copy a linux distro to the laptop, but I don't know how you'd proceed to run its installer.
From: Roberuto on 17 Mar 2010 19:52
On 5 Mar, 23:35, "John Varela" <newla...(a)verizon.net> wrote: > I run an iMac and, within that, OS/2 (as you can see from my > headers). > > I just bought a SamsungN150netbook with the idea of installing > Linux on it. > > This computer has no CD drive and will not boot from a USB source. I > have been into the BIOS set-up and it will ONLY boot from the hard > drive. > > I've tried Googling and can't seem to formulate a query that finds > anything useful, so I come to this group to ask: > > Is there a Linux distribution that can install by launching the > set-up from Windows 7? > > Preferably Linux would reside in a separate partition and allow > booting into either Win 7 or Linux. > > This needs to be a high reliability installation system, because it > appears that if the Win 7 partition is screwed there is no way to > recover. > > -- > John Varela I just bought a N150 and managed to install Ubuntu Network Remix successfully! I used a 8g pendrive and used an application from the site www.pendrivelinux.com that was really easy to use. Connecting the pendrive to an USB port creates a new option in the boot list (accessed via F2 on the "Samsung" startup screen). Put this option above the 160gb HD and there you go: the netbook will boot the pendrive. Installed Ubuntu Remix normally in a newly created partition (left the recovery partitions and the windows 7 partition untouched). Booted the netbook through GRUB and managed to use the Ubuntu Remix successfully. The problem is that when I booted Windows 7 Starter, the netbook crashed: it started booting over and over again. The GRUB stopped working. I am trying to figure it out right now. Hope it helps! Roberto Nakai |