how to install on thinkpad with *no* CD-ROM drive

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> 
>   colleague has a 4-YO (or so) "i" series thinkpad, on which the
> cd-rom drive has gone south, but he'd still like to install FC3.  the
> system does have a USB floppy drive from which one can boot.  so ...
> what are his options?  i realize there's no installation boot floppy
> any more with FC.
> 
>   he mentioned that he's used an intelligent boot manager from
> sourceforge (btmgr) but not in this context.   i can certainly make
> the FC3 ISO images available on the net, but how he gets to them is
> the mystery.

My recommendation is to swap the HDD into a different laptop - do the
install (and get the updates esp - rhgb) - and swap back the HDD.

This link was posted earlier on this list.

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~colohan/docs/fedora_upgrade.html

Satish