Old satellite, any way to boot by usb?

[triculious]

Hey guys

I have an old Toshiba Satellite M45-S331 which certainly has seen better times. It's been with me for a couple of years (over 4 I think), the battery only lasts for a whooping 3 minutes and the dvd reader is dead as well.

The bios doesn't include an option to use usb for booting and I would like to format and install ubuntu on it. Do you know if there's any bios flash I can use to get that?

Or is it time to get me a new one? (most probably it is, but I don't have the money right now =P)

 

[kiren]

Its doubtful that a bios update would ad that support, you can however install ubuntu using wubi assuming you already have windows installed: http/wubi-installer.org/ it doesn't really reformat it, more just lets you allocate space on the existing partitiion for it to run in, still it lets you install it on a machine with no bootable media and use it as full o/s it'll show up using the windows bootloader and let you choose which to start

 

[triculious]

I'm a noob and I suk... that much I know

I was already trying to use wubi, but doing a full restart with a bootable stick... not straight from the already installed windows >_<

thanks a lot for the answer, kiren... worked like a charm

 

[triculious]

Best answer selected by triculious.

 

[kiren]

Glad it worked, did the same thing on my netbook (boots from usb, but alas I only have sd cards to work with right now)