Well, since you've solved it using a real drive, this is a bit late, but, ... On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 29/12/12 13:14, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> >> Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA writes: >> >>> Is there a way I can install without using the USB flash >>> drive? There is no optical drive in that box. Is there a >>> scheme for installing over the LAN connection? >> >> >> Yes, but first you need to make sure that your target computer supports >> booting over the network. Poke in its BIOS, see if you can find some option >> that's described somewhere along the lines as being able to boot over the >> network. There's usually an option somewhere that sets the order in which >> the BIOS attempts to boot, whether the first device is the hard drive, or >> the CD/DVD ROM, or USB. If one of those options is a network boot, you're >> good to go. That's presuming that this is a network port on the motherboard. >> If you have a standalone network card, the card should have its own internal >> BIOS that you can enter during the boot, with an option to enable booting. >> >> The Fedora installation guide has instructions for installing Fedora over >> the network, using a network-based boot, so I guess you can follow along, >> but you'll need to verify that your motherboard supports a network-based >> boot, first, otherwise you'll be wasting your time. >> >> I use a different, slightly order method, BTW, of manually setting up >> DHCP, TFTP, and isolinux. >> >> >> > Ok, I will save this and give it a try but for the present I tried > "livecreator" with an external hard drive instead of the flash > drive. For whatever reason the hard drive worked with out a hitch. usb drives are known to be pretty finicky. They are built cheap firstmost and foremost. But, something I found worked for me, after reading the warning about the reset mbr option, run it from the command line and add the reset master boot record option: liveusb-creator --reset-mbr I'm guessing this will be especially useful for drives that have been reformatted and such. (Use the --help option to find more options.) > The installer was difficult for me to use, among other things gray > text on a light gray background, I gave up and used the install > defaults ... > > Thank you, (I've been thinking we need to re-emphasize the install processes that don't require rebooting just to start the install.) -- Joel Rees -- 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
