Install linux onto an old laptop with no cd drive

[pieter3d]

Hi guys.

I have an old Sony VAIO, 366mhz Pentium2, 64mb ram, 6gb hdd.
I have taken the HDD out of the system and put it into a usb enclosure. I can access it with my WinXP box.

I would like to be able to run the vector linux installer on the laptop. However I am having trouble finding a way to format the harddrive to make it a bootable disk when I put it back into the laptop.

Any ideas?

[bobescalin2005]

Well i guess it works without the USB Enclosure! I think your laptop will see that hard disk like a usb flash and i don`t think your laptop will boot from USB-HDD!!! You can see in bios if it has that option to boot from!
Cheers!

[droope]

What you will have to do probably is to create a flash USB boot drive.

And if that doesn't work, you'll have to create a floppy boot disk to boot the USB drive, and then that will work great.

Or, find someone who can lend you a portable cd reader that you can plug on the USB slot.

Check this out,
Boot From A USB Flash Drive
And google a lot

[Jonathan183]

If the laptop has a net connection then unetbootin may help you ... see here.

or this may help.