Is there some trick to booting F16 minimal install CD?

[Ranjan Maitra]

you can use a usb and then boot from that.

to do so, install unetbootin, and then mount the usb.

then go to unetbootin, ask to copy Diskimage, and then make sure that
the usb directory is recognized. Sit back and watch it go through....

Btw, what ks file did you use to make the minimal CD? 

ranjan

On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:09:01 -0500 Michael Hennebry
<hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
> 
> > On 10/03/12 18:27, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
> >> On 08/03/12 00:07, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive.
> >>> It doesn't work.
> 
> I case it matters, it is a CD, not a mostly empty DVD.
> It crapped out on my CD drive also.
> 
> >>> The boot menu asks me to install or troubleshoot.
> >>> Hitting enter for install results in lots of text
> >>> scrolling off the page followed by catatonia.
> >>> The first time, the last line was incomplete.
> >>> The next time I used
> >>> linux ks=http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/anaconda-ks.cfg
> >>> The last line before catatonia included something like "end of dump".
> 
> > As an update I have discovered that the Nouveau driver for nVidia cards
> > has problems in Fedora 16. Hence on the network install CD or a spin CD
> > you need to use the troubleshooting install/run which then uses the vesa
> > driver instead.
> 
> That would seem to not be my problem.  From lspci:
> "01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series"
> 
> That doesn't mean that the troubleshooting install/run wouldn't help.
> Alas, I cannot figure out how to do anything with it.
> I can tell neither what is selected nor what is
> supposed to happen if I hit enter on a selection.
> For that matter, I'm not clear on the dividing lines between selections.
> 
> I'd like to install from a hard drive and use a kickstart file,
> but I can't even get the minimal CD to boot.
> I was going to give up and just stick a DVD into a drive and boot,
> but I can't burn DVDs anymore.
> Apparently the burner portion gave up the
> ghost after burning a memory tester.
> The minimal CD craps out from my CD drive also.
> 
> Is there a way I could get the complete install
> iso into a partition and boot from that?
> 
> 
> The install documentation is truly awful.
> 'Tisn't the least bit obvious how to do anything
> but stick a DVD into a drive and boot.
> Even that is in 7.1.1.
> 
> I think the problem is an assumption that anyone who isn't
> a gury will just stick a DVD into a drive and boot.
> No doubt the gurus find the documentation overly verbose.
> 
> -- 
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> whom I teach not to run with scissors,
> that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword."  --  Lily
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