/tech/ - Technology★

>>977619 (OP)

Why would anyone think you can't install it without a card reader?

>>977619 (OP)

netboot? floppies?

>>977622

My notebooks somehow can't boot from card reader.

>>977624

No I partitioned part of my drive to fat32

Then I used a live usb program to install it to the partitioned drive

>>977619 (OP)

Does an external hard drive count?

Although mighty legends speak of such heroism, network boot can be achieved for both DOS and Unix since many years ago.

The question is, what kind of device gives no option for either DVD or USB, or both? Or perhaps you are experiencing the true information era of redundant DVD players and writers, using only USB and Ethernet.

7/10.

>>977627

So you used a usb drive.

>>977647

He used an internal harddrive. He used a usb *program* on the hdd to install it.

>>977619 (OP)

>They said you couldn't install linux without a dvd or usb drive.

Nobody said that.

Good for you OP, bet it took a few tries to work since you posted this. I install using PXE too and with apt-cacher-ng as a local repository cache. Once set up, it's as easy as it can be.

>>977627

I might try this with Windows 10, later.

>>977691

>Nobody said that.

Indeed. Unless they were stupid. Like OP.

Was this a live-cd?

>>977619 (OP)

There was someone on this board who said he installed GNU/Linux from a virtualbox image.

>>977619 (OP)

Use an ISO file like a white man

Boot off floppy and then just do a ftp "net" install. Wow so hard.

>>977911

Didn't work. unetbootin would not let me select the drive I wanted to use.

>>977911

>>979260

Got it to work after all. (Win10 Pro was too cancerous for me.) Turns out that unetbootin needs to be started with the option 'targetdrive=[drive]' to select a different hard drive.

Of course, the whole exercise was kind of pointless since modern USB sticks are so fast that a few hundred megabyte per second more barely make a difference.

>>977652

>He used an internal harddrive. He used a usb *program* on the hdd to install it.

like he said, a drive using the usb format as an interface

a usb drive

>USB Mountr (Use your device as a USB flash drive) - https://f-droid.org/app/streetwalrus.usbmountr

https://github.com/Streetwalrus/android_usb_msd/

I have multiple Linux distros on my tablets very large micro SD card, I live boot whatever I need whenever I need.

What a dicovery, OP!

You might just have saved us all by discovering what I already did 3 years ago. How much of a genius

>>977619 (OP)

Yeah, the problem is most pc's don't have a floppy drive anymore.

>>979415

Where is USB in this? He's talking about an INTERNAL DRIVE, which is probably connected with SATA or something.

>>979474

>android screencap

Let me guess, your mobile data is faster than your home connection?

>>979879

I was away from my house, the tablet goes with me everywhere so that I have more screen real estate when unable a desktop or laptop my home data is wired and it is much faster.

>>979415

Are you retarded