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Installing Eee PC from External Drive
Question:
I bought an Eee PC 1000H netbook a few weeks ago and would like to have SUSE 11 installed, preferably in dual-boot mode with the existing Windows XP. The 160GB disk has a second partition, formatted to NTFS and with a size of ~60GB. I have tried to install SUSE 11.1 from a USB stick after setting the BIOS accordingly. There is an ISO image on the stick, and the stick shows in BIOS, but the computer still boots up with Windows.
I've also tried it with an external DVD drive, again setting the BIOS to boot from it with the SUSE 11.0 DVD. But, although the BIOS seems to detect the drive, the machine still boots XP. I also copied the ISO image into the vacant partition, but of course that doesn't make it boot either.
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