Thanks.
>When you say it lacks a VGA card, does that mean you
> have no video at all?
It has no video,no regular keyboard, no PS/2 mouse port; all the communication
is through the serial port.
Regards,
IB
On 4/3/06, Chris Mauritz <chrism@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ian Brown wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have an external USB cdrom ; I have a machine which does not have
> > a VGA card and not a standard IDE socket so you cannot connect a
> > CDROM internally to it ; it has USB port;
> > I want to install CentOS using an external USB cdrom on this machine,
> > through the serial port.
> >
> > Is there a way to do it ? I am quite desperate about it.
> >
> > The motherboard DOES enable configuing the BIOS to boot from a USB
> > device.
> >
>
> If you set the USB device as bootable in the bios, it should just work.
> I have used a Sony USB DVD-RW drive to install CentOS on a few laptops
> and a few 1RU rackmount systems that did not come with integrated
> optical drives. When you say it lacks a VGA card, does that mean you
> have no video at all?
>
> Cheers,
>
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