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Warpnow
June 19th, 2010, 12:51 AM
It seems that the alternate CD lacks support for installing from USB. It simply says no common CD-Rom drive is found, causes an error, and drops you into the menu with no way to go forward.

Considering alot of netbooks don't have CD-ROM drives, this seems like something that should be changed.

C.S.Cameron
June 19th, 2010, 01:27 AM
I think you can make an alternate boot USB using UNetbootin or Universal Installer or LinuxLive USB Creator, etc.

Warpnow
July 3rd, 2010, 12:07 AM
I was using unetbootin and it wouldn't work.

Ojustaboo
July 3rd, 2010, 09:47 AM
Having exactly the same problem, created USB using Universal Installer.

Have tried going to command prompt at language select screen and mounting my usb stick as /cdrom. Could then cd to /cdrom and see all files fine.

Continued with install, as soon as it's finished it's keyboard selection, cdrom not found.