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sorry for the confusing sounding subject line...
I've got an old laptop with no battery and no hard drive. It has a working optical drive and I've got a wireless card for it that works fine. I've got a couple USB flash drives that I could use. It has VGA video out.
What I want is to use this system to play videos (on my TV) that are stored on my network (through nfs or something) and control it through ssh (or something else from another computer)
As far as I know, I can't boot from USB, and I don't have a floppy drive.
What are my best options?
I've used a couple of livecds that work ok, but the one that works the best is unfortunately painfully slow (xubuntu)
I know that I can use and control mplayer through ssh like I want, i just need a good system that will mount network drives and use my wireless card.
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I guess i should add that it would be alot simpler if I had a hard drive for it.. but i don't want to go buy one.
I suppose a subquestion would be: can I install to a usb flash stick and boot from it even though the bios doesn't support it?
Last edited by mrcold (2010-03-27 21:33:15)
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Install something (arch?) onto a USB, and use this Live CD to boot from USB: http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html
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