-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/26/2012 12:37 PM, 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 ???? > > You will probably run into problems with the wrong drivers being loaded into the initrd image. It may not have the IDE drivers. Are you sure your system does not have an IDE connection as well as the SATA connections? A lot of motherboards have both. In any case, you will have to select a custom GRUB config because the drive configuration will be different when you are installing and when you boot with the drive back in the Dell. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/qYs8ACgkQqbQrVW3JyMS8LgCffA6sxz9LG/E0uHekS8iv1Wzb bsYAnj6RlihnE1XMHfWT9g5924KgMpdZ =iLfn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
