On 2013-04-22 22:23 (GMT-0700) John Reiser composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2013-04-22 19:24 (GMT-0400) Fernando Cassia composed:
I remember Pentium III machines came from the USB 1.x era, not USB 2.0. So likely your BIOS won't allow you to boot from a USB-anything port using "mass storage devices".
PIII predates USB2 by only about a year, while USB2 predates P4 by about 7 months. Thus, a PIII system may or may not have USB2 support on the motherboard.
BIOS boot from USB support came much later, 2004 if Wikipedia is correct.
When the BIOS cannot boot using USB2.0, then in most cases the installer itself can be booted using a bootstrap procedure. There are many ways.
I wasn't attempting to address anything other than the previous USB / PIII comment. Most of my Linux installs regardless of distro are begun by loading an installation kernel and initrd using Grub from HD boot and installing via HTTP. For pre-release distro versions it's really wasteful to download a whole DVD or even full CD sized iso first when likely only a fraction of its content will be used, and won't be used more than once before obsolete.
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