How to install mandriva 2011 using usb

You can access it by pressing F2 or the key that the system indicates when you turn the computer on. Once there, look for Boot options and set it to read USB.

Make sure you also set the computer to boot from USB before it boots from the hard disk. Then save and exit by pressing F10 and then YES. Your computer is going to start normally and then you get into the OS to be able to get the Mandriva One and Mandriva Seed. Once you use it, your USB drive will become a bootable device and, hence, you cannot use it to store information that's why you should use a 1GB drive! Then wait until the process finishes and close the program.

What's the practical application of all this, you say? Well, you'll find out next time your Windows system dies on you and you have something urgent to do, such as typing a paper or sending a vital email. Yes, your computer will come back from dead-chip land!

Of course, if you do not want to go through all this process, you can always buy the Mandriva One USB from the Mandriva site www. However, that defeats the purpose of learning about your computer Now, if you think that you'd rather spend some money helping the company, buy the Mandriva Flash , not the Mandriva One USB, as the former gives you all the advantages of the latter plus it is a mobile Linux desktop.

Has anyone attempted to try this? I downloaded the pendrive linux installer with the Mandriva iso file. All seemed to go well on the install but when I boot up to USB the Mandriva screen comes up and that is it.

It has a image on the bottom of the screen that appears to be a "loading" image but it never loads. Any suggestions would be great. Ultimately I would love to run a full machine running Mandriva but for the mean time, utilizing the UBS boot option is what I am stuck with. Thanks in advance for your advice. The black screen could mean that it sticks at video. I usually choose vesa because I have crap video and I'm sure I will see a display. Xorg will sometimes load a video driver that doesn't work so going for the absolute lowest video will prevent that from happening.

If it is a laptop, I also try acpi off. Some distros have this as noacpi. Do you get an option for other choices, like press F3? If so, select that and see what you can turn off. I've also discovered noscsi can eliminate some hangups. I did discover, when I hit "Esc" that it brings up what it is doing. Honestly, I don't know what the difference is. Keeping fingers crossed.

If anyone reading this is like "This guy is a dummy" and wants to direct me in the right direction, I will be most appreciative. What brand and capacity is your USB stick? Some have software on them that interferes booting from the USB stick. People posting at the eeepc users forum have this problem from time to time.