[PLUG] Older laptop, booting from DVD, then loading from USB flash drive- upgrading Mint

[Matt McKenzie]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Matt McKenzie <lnxknight at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all.
> I have tried a bit of Google-fu but so far just getting articles about
> booting from either DVD or USB.
> In my case I kind of want to do both.
>
> My laptop is an older beast, Pentium M 32bit aka Centrino.  It is a
> whitebox unit made by Compal (not Compaq), model CL50, I have had it for
> many years and it runs Linux well.
> Only real problem with it, it cannot boot from USB.  I have checked for
> updates to BIOS, it has the latest that was available for this motherboard.
>
> I have Linux Mint 13 on it, and want to do a fresh install of Mint 14.  I
> have Mint 14 image on a USB drive, and the Mint 13 live DVD.
> I was hoping to find a way to boot the live DVD, then tell it to continue
> loading from the flash drive, so I can install.  This would save having to
> burn more DVDs for each upgrade.
> I tried fiddling with the options the live DVD has, it does have an option
> to boot local disk, but that means hard drive.
> I would like to boot from USB flash drive.  The syntax it uses is
> unfamiliar, I don't know if it is newer GRUB or it isn't GRUB at all.
>
> If possible I could use a SuperGRUB boot CD (pretty sure I have one, if
> not I could of course burn that).  I just want to try to get off the
> treadmill of burning new DVDs for each release.
>
> If anyone has actually done this sort of thing I would appreciate
> pointers, otherwise I'll just keep digging probably in GRUB or Mint forums
> etc.
> Thanks.
>
> ----------
> Matt M.
> LinuxKnight
>



Replying to myself for a bump, and a test- seeing if this actually got
through to the group, and no one has answered?
Or if it didn't make it the first time....

Thanks.