Re: DVD Writer -> booting from a USB storage device is a BIOS option...

AnnonymousFC4 wrote:

Hello:
booting from a USB storage device is a BIOS option... on many (not so)
recent motherboards. The ASUS A7N8X mother board that I am using for about
2 years support this... but I have never tried it!
If I had a USB storage device, I would... but I don't.

Please post on this, because USB storage devices become "main stream" and
installing Linux this way, should be just as easy as "the other ways":
CD/DVD/NETWORK...


My mother board is fairly recent. A MSI with a Athlon 64 bit chip. It even
has onboard gigbyte ethernet. AMIBIOS ver. 3.31a. But I can't find anywhere
in the BIOS setup where I can't boot form a usb device. I guess I'll have
to check with MSI for a BIOS update.

Dennis
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