installing from a NON boot usb

[mr_arc]

Howdy.

My laptop doesnt support USB booting, has no optical drives but does have an FDD.

If copy the install folder onto a USB drive, boot from a floppy and load USB drivers for the drive, can I then install from there without issue?

[audiomick]

Hallo.
I have no idea myself if this woorks, although I think it should.
I also saw this post
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8744312&postcount=21
today, that indicates that it should.

[oldfred]

More info:

GRUB2 can boot a USB in a computer that can't normally boot a USB drive
http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p20.html



My BIOS cannot boot from USB device, can Super Grub Disk help me?

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/USB_Boot