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Submitted by giuppi on Wed, 2009/01/28 - 03:22
My laptop doesn't have a CD/DVD drive. Is there a way to install Turnkey MediaWiki from a thumbdrive?
I tried copying all the files from the CD (after burning the iso file I downloaded here) on the thumbdrive and changing the boot order of the laptop, but I got the following messages:
No operative system found, and
Remove your accessories and press any key to reboot.
Evidently I'm doing something wrong. Any help please?
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A couple of programs claim to do what you want
Meanwhile, you may want to try a couple of tools I found that claim to do what you want - installing a Live CD ISO image as a Live USB:
Note that converting a Live CD ISO image to a Live USB image is technically possible but it is a bit more complicated than what you tried.
If the GUI tools above don't work for you, you might have better luck with a Python script Alon wrote that installs an extracted ISO filesystem to a USB device:
cdroot2usb python module dependencies
My reply on the turnkey-discuss mailing list.
Virtual Machine an alternative to bare metal installation
Instead of trying to install an appliance on the laptop's bare metal you'll find it is probably much easier to install it into a Virtual Machine (e.g., VirtualBox or VMWare) which can load the ISO into its "virtual" CD drive.
BTW, that's how we do most of our testing. Only rarely do we actually burn physical CDs.
Thank you liraz, I followed
Ok, it seems it has already
I can confirm unetbooting
And it's got the advantage of working also in windows (for those who are like myself, stuck dealing with it at work).
It works like a charm on the test unit I have here (An HP T5300 thin client. So potentially I could in theory recycle a thin client and make it into a domain controller. Not a bad idea, but meh.)
Now, to see if I can slap that baby on a CF flash card...
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