MacG10
September 1st, 2008, 11:37 AM
I have stripped an old laptop to the motherboard and screen that I want to turn into a photoframe.
When I first started this project I was going to install Ubuntu on the harddrive, but I have decided to go away from this original plan as the harddrive is too loud when not inside a laptop casing (not very nice to have a loud photo-frame...)
I have been google-ing a lot on the topic of making a boot-floppy so I can run an USB-stick with Ubuntu, but have come across the following problem:
I cannot seem to find a site that shows how to make a boot-floppy inside Windows that will enable USB. All sites seem to already have Ubuntu running on a computer to make a floppy from there. I only have one laptop that has a floppy-drive > the one I am currently working on. This laptop currently has Windows on the harddisk and this is where I need to 'make' the boot-floppy. Once I have this floppy I can discard the harddrive and run the floppy/usb combo.
Any help is appreciated, since I am currently stuck and really want to continue this project.
When I first started this project I was going to install Ubuntu on the harddrive, but I have decided to go away from this original plan as the harddrive is too loud when not inside a laptop casing (not very nice to have a loud photo-frame...)
I have been google-ing a lot on the topic of making a boot-floppy so I can run an USB-stick with Ubuntu, but have come across the following problem:
I cannot seem to find a site that shows how to make a boot-floppy inside Windows that will enable USB. All sites seem to already have Ubuntu running on a computer to make a floppy from there. I only have one laptop that has a floppy-drive > the one I am currently working on. This laptop currently has Windows on the harddisk and this is where I need to 'make' the boot-floppy. Once I have this floppy I can discard the harddrive and run the floppy/usb combo.
Any help is appreciated, since I am currently stuck and really want to continue this project.