F7 torrents

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu May 31 16:01:15 UTC 2007


Charles Curley wrote:

>>> And for those of us with boxes that don't have DVD drives?
>> use method hard drive.
>> you need to put the .iso image on a partition that you wont be formatting.
>>
>> then the installer asks you which partition, and the folder {from memory}.
> 
> That works. Or:
> 
> * Put the ISO on another machine, and install via NFS (fastest), HTTP
>   or FTP. Properly set up, this works very nicely with kickstart.
> 
> * Buy a USB clam shell and put a DVD drive in it. Yes, I know, we're
>   all allergic to spending money. I even used this trick to install on
>   my ancient laptop with USB 1.1 on it. Slow but it works.

Is there a way to put the dvd image file or directory of CD iso images 
on a USB external flash or hard drive, boot from something else (perhaps 
  another USB flash drive with the boot image copied to it) and install 
from those image copies?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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