Starting the installation from a USB key

[Paul Howarth]

ilyes gouta wrote:
> I'm willing to install the Fedora Core 3 on my laptop (Thinkpad R50) .
> I got the installation CDs from a friend which told me that the first
> CD can't be used to boot the system and kickoff the install.

Your friend may not have been able to boot from the first CD but that 
doesn't mean that *you* can't. It's *supposed* to work.

> On the /readme of that CD it written that bootdisk.img can be used to
> bootstrap the installation from a USB stick. I tried the following
> from my aging Mandrake 9.2 distro. :
> 
> % dd if=/mnt/cdrom/image/bootdisk.img of=/dev/sda4
> 
> Where /dev/sda4 is my USB stick which is unmounted.
> 
> I '% reboot'  the machine w/ my USB stick plugged, told the BIOS to
> boot from a HDD USB (which correctly detected my stick) and crossed my
> finger... -> Nothing, the system just displays "Missing operating
> system" and hangs..
> 
> Any idea ? How to bootstrap the installation from a USB stick ?

Try:
$ dd if=/mnt/cdrom/image/bootdisk.img of=/dev/sda

Paul.