On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 16:48 -0400, fred smith wrote: > I'm playing around with F11 pre-release, and wanted to install from the > DVD on an old PII I have here. trouble is I don't have a spare (working) > DVD drive, but I do have a USB DVD drive. > > This machine is old enough it won't boot from the USB DVD, so I was > wondering if there is a way to make a bootable CD from the DVD, and > use that bootable CD as we used to use boot floppies, back in the day, > to boot the system far enough to allow access to the DVD and to then > run the installation from the DVD. > > Anybody know? You could just install from a Live CD (I presume the machine has a CD drive). Once that's up, you should be able to install extra stuff from the DVD via the USB drive. In fact it's not hard to just configure the drive as a local repo so yum will consult it when updating (or just copy the DVD contents to your hard disk and do it from there if you have the space). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
