How to install Fedora-12?

[Timothy Murphy]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:

>> My ancient Pentium Pro (Asus P2B-LS) desktop
>> does not appear to support booting from a USB stick,
>> although it does have USB sockets.
>> 
>> Is there any easy way to use my USB stick with F-12 on it
>> to install Fedora on this machine?

> There was some discussion about doing something similar using chain
> booting from grub as one of the options within the last week on one of the
> Fedora lists. There might be some helpful advice in that thread.

I didn't find this thread.

Under Fedora-11, the USB stick is /dev/sdc ,
with the Fedora-12 partition at /dev/sdc2 .

However, when I ran grub interactively, and set

grub> root (hd2,1)

it said that that disk did not exist.
I tried hd0 to hd6 but it only found
my 2 SCSI disks at hd0 and hd1 .

It seems that grub does not necessarily see a USB disk,
even if Fedora can see it.

I should say that this is only an experiment.
I could perfectly well install from hard disk (and probably will)
or (possibly) with PXEboot.



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