Installing Fedora on a USB connected Harddrive.

[Richard Vickery]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> 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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I have a Dell that came with Linux pre-installed.They don't offer phone
support, but they offer very good web support
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