Re: F7 torrents

[Tony Nelson <tonynelson georgeanelson com>]

At 11:01 AM -0500 5/31/07, Les Mikesell wrote:
>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?

"linux askmethod" should work.
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