I'm playing around with F11 pre-release, and wanted to install from the DVD on an old PII I have here. trouble is I don't have a spare (working) DVD drive, but I do have a USB DVD drive.
This machine is old enough it won't boot from the USB DVD, so I was wondering if there is a way to make a bootable CD from the DVD, and use that bootable CD as we used to use boot floppies, back in the day, to boot the system far enough to allow access to the DVD and to then run the installation from the DVD.
Anybody know?
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 16:48 -0400, fred smith wrote:
I'm playing around with F11 pre-release, and wanted to install from the DVD on an old PII I have here. trouble is I don't have a spare (working) DVD drive, but I do have a USB DVD drive.
This machine is old enough it won't boot from the USB DVD, so I was wondering if there is a way to make a bootable CD from the DVD, and use that bootable CD as we used to use boot floppies, back in the day, to boot the system far enough to allow access to the DVD and to then run the installation from the DVD.
Anybody know?
You could just install from a Live CD (I presume the machine has a CD drive). Once that's up, you should be able to install extra stuff from the DVD via the USB drive. In fact it's not hard to just configure the drive as a local repo so yum will consult it when updating (or just copy the DVD contents to your hard disk and do it from there if you have the space).
poc
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 05:24:07PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 16:48 -0400, fred smith wrote:
I'm playing around with F11 pre-release, and wanted to install from the DVD on an old PII I have here. trouble is I don't have a spare (working) DVD drive, but I do have a USB DVD drive.
This machine is old enough it won't boot from the USB DVD, so I was wondering if there is a way to make a bootable CD from the DVD, and use that bootable CD as we used to use boot floppies, back in the day, to boot the system far enough to allow access to the DVD and to then run the installation from the DVD.
Anybody know?
You could just install from a Live CD (I presume the machine has a CD drive). Once that's up, you should be able to install extra stuff from the DVD via the USB drive. In fact it's not hard to just configure the drive as a local repo so yum will consult it when updating (or just copy the DVD contents to your hard disk and do it from there if you have the space).
Poc, thanks for replying. Yes, I could do that. but I'm doing this partly for fun and wondering if it's POSSIBLE to do what I asked. I did try doing it from live cd, but this machine is so dog slow it takes about 45 minutes to get to where it begins the installation, then it chokes because it can't find the hard drive (I gotta fix that, I know...:):) )
fred smith wrote:
I'm playing around with F11 pre-release, and wanted to install from the DVD on an old PII I have here. trouble is I don't have a spare (working) DVD drive, but I do have a USB DVD drive.
This machine is old enough it won't boot from the USB DVD, so I was wondering if there is a way to make a bootable CD from the DVD, and use that bootable CD as we used to use boot floppies, back in the day, to boot the system far enough to allow access to the DVD and to then run the installation from the DVD.
Anybody know?
I don't have a direct answer, but there is another way that may work for you. If you have another machine, and a network, you can have the other machine serve out the DVD, and use the boot.iso image from the DVD to boot the installer. From there, you can do a network install using your local server. (You do not have to burn the DVD image - just loop mount it on the server.)
You could also try burning the boot.img, select the expert mode, and see if that will let you find the drive. Unless things have changed, a normal install will not show USB devices.
Mikkel
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