[ILUG] iso BOOT from USB question

[Nick Murtagh]

TreeFrog TreeFrog wrote:
> I have a 1G usb drive and I want to boot a laptop from it.

Pádraig wrote:
> http://www.linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/howtoburn.html

Eh... I think he's taking about a USB flash drive.

Something like this perhaps?
     http://featherlinux.berlios.de/usb-instructions.htm

Justin wrote:
> I managed to do it with an external Sony DVD/CD reader/burner over USB
> 2.0; however I had difficulty depending on how I had it connected.

If you have an option in your BIOS similar to "Disable Legacy USB", make
sure this is disabled. This got the Ubuntu Hoary install CD booting on a
USB CDROM drive connected to a newish motherboard.