Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Everyone,
I picked up an ACER N281G that comes packed with linpus 3.0.0. It has a
a network connection, usb ports, and memory card reader, but no DVD. linpus is
supposed to be a Fedora based os, I would like to put F16 on this to see
if it will fly. I have never used a memory card reader to install an
os, nor a usb install, nor a network install. Any recommendations as to how to do this.
I know more about this than I want to, so here's what I have found:
1 - some BIOS will boot an ISO image off a USB flash. This is easy, you can copy
either a live-CD image or an install (4GB) image to you memory device with dd,
no magic needed.
2 - you can make a bootable memory device from an ISO image using unetbootln to
write an image to memory device, this has not failed for me with install DVD,
one live-CD didn't boot.
3 - you can use the livecd software, which is a family of programs to write
live-CD, bootable ISO images on memory devices, and the like. After you figure
out which one to use for what you want to do, it will probably work.
4 - With recent distributions, I have found that putting the 4G install DVD
memory device and trying to install to an unpartitioned drive (in my case new
SSD drives) results in a requirement for network access, which I couldn't give.
I wound up installing in a VM with raw disk image and copying that to the
internal drive from a live-CD boot which did work. This is not all cut and
dried, the BIOS involved is important, the distribution, etc.
Good luck.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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