HOWto on booting from USB DVD

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Sat Nov 11 18:26:17 UTC 2006


At 11:00 PM -0700 11/10/06, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>Mark Haney wrote:
>
>>George Arseneault wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If your system has a cd drive, you can boot from an
>>>install cd. That should initialize the usb and allow
>>>you to install from the dvd. At least, thats how I did
>>>it.
>>>
>>>Hope it helps
>>>
>>>George
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Therein lies the rub.  This is a blade that has no peripherals but a USB
>>port.  I was very hesitant to try FC5 since the last FC upgrade I did to
>>FC5 blew a gasket, but so far (knock on wood) it's going okay.  It's
>>slow as crap, but it's still going.
>>
>>
>
>You'll need a USB 2.0 port, and cable.
>
>You'll also need to specify the usb-storage drivers which aren't
>loaded by default (don't ask me why not).

AIR, that is done by booting the install with "linux expert".
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