How do I install batocera linux os on my old laptop without a flash drive or sd card?

[Naer]

I want to install it now, but have neither. The laptop has 2 ssd's.The laptop is a 7 year old acer aspire e5-575g. What can be done to replace windows 10 os with batocera? I want to make my old laptop into a retro gaming console.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It has no USB at all? Does it at least have a cdrom drive? Might have to do it the old school way and burn the ISO to a cd.

 

[Naer]

It has no USB at all? Does it at least have a cdrom drive? Might have to do it the old school way and burn the ISO to a cd.

No it has usb ports, I just don't have a usb thumb drive to create a bootable drive. How do I do it without one? Like from the second ssd inside the laptop. I don't have blank CD's as well. If all else fails, I would have to wait until I could order something to boot the os from.

 

[Naer]

batocera.linux

Only Cores That Matter

batocera.org

says I need to create something bootable

 

[TheELF]

You can write the image to a hard drive instead of a USB drive, it's the same thing.
That's what I did with recalbox, but they are all just linux images so they should all work the same.
If you have an external usb to sata converter that would be the safest way to do it, connecting it to a new system.
if you connect the laptop drive to a new system internally you have to be extra super careful not to choose the wrong drive when writing the image, otherwise you could lose important data.

If the other drive on the laptop has an OS on it you could do it from that but you should make sure that you can boot into that other drive without the windows drive being connected.

 

[Red Squirrel]

USB drives are cheap I would just order one off a reputable computer site (not Amazon - lot of fakes), heck Walmart might even have some. It's the easiest way to go.

 

[shortylickens]

My 7-11 sells thumb drives so I don't see what the problem is here.
But yes if you know what you are doing you can create a boot install sector on your hard drive and first time it boots up it will install your OS.

 

[Captante]

Micro Center SuperSpeed 5 Pack 16GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive
(Amazon @ $16.99)

 

[Captante]

Verbatim 32GB Metal Executive USB 3.0 Flash Drive
(Amazon @ $7.94)

 

[SKORPI0]

You still need a USB Flash drive to install on a laptop/PC.

install_batocera [Batocera.linux - Wiki]

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