Installing Fedora on a USB connected Harddrive.

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 13:37 -0400, Jim wrote:
> Fedora 17 new install on a USB connected hard drive.
> 
> I have Dell Dimension 2400 with WindowsXP installed, But !! I can't
> get this Dell to Boot off a CDROM.
> by even setting up BIOS to boot off CDROM.
> 
> Yes the CD is a Bootable CD.  If you read the CD from within WindowsXP
> it will read the the files on the CD.
> 
> I was thinking about taking hard drive out the Dell and USB connect
> the hard drive to another Computer and do a resize of WindowsXP and
> install Fedora on hard drive and setting up the hard drive as a Boot
> drive , then put it back into the Dell 2400.
> 
> The Dell hard drive is a IDE drive and My computer is SATA so I can't
> put the Dell hard drive in my PC.
> 
> Will it Work ????

Don't you mean a DVD?

If the the procedure I outlined in my previous note does not work Down
load a Live CD. Install it on a usb stick using unetbootin you get from
unetbootin.sourceforge.net

Then use the usb stick to install Fedora 17.

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