30 Nov
2015
30 Nov
'15
6:02 p.m.
On Monday 30 November 2015 14:27:31 Alexandre wrote:
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De : Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com>
Envoyé : 30 novembre 2015 08:08
À : trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net
Objet : Re: [trinity-users] Hybrid Live Images
On Monday 30 November 2015 13:00:26 Lisi Reisz wrote:
Not in this case. The BIOS wouldn't wait for something to be read. It could
only read off something that was already available before the BIOS looked for
it. So the CD/DVD had to have been spun up in advance of the laptop's being
turned on, which meant that it had to be separately powered. A solid state
hard drive does not have to spin up and can be read immediately.
Lisi
On Monday 30 November 2015 12:52:16 Alexandre
wrote:
The problem laptop would boot from an expensive powered USB optical drive,
and a USB hard drive.
Hi Lisi,
Almost everything will boot from external USB dvd drive, except maybe if
you're talking about launching a Win 98 install, or old Debian. The problem
you're seeing is when the USB ports of the computer can't supply enough
power by itself to make the drive work properly. Nowadays, most drives can
work properly with either 1 USB port, or by adding (included with the
drive) a second USB plug to supply more power to the drive. Just want to say that now you can buy on ebay an
external USB DVD
drive-burner for 15-20$.
Great, when they work. not everything will boot from them.