How to install Fedora-12?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 14:14:22 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 13:16 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> >> I was just wondering if there was a way of installing from my USB
> >> stick, even if I had to copy vmlinuz and initrd to my hard disk first.
> > 
> > Installing the LiveCd version from a stick is simple.
> 
> It's simple if you can boot from a USB stick.
> (In my experience installing Fedora-12 in this way
> is much easier than any previous version of Fedora).

Again, it's simple for the LiveCD version. It's not simple for the DVD
version when you have no optical drive but do have a (large enough) USB
stick, even when the machine can boot from USB.

> But the question is: can one install from the stick in some way
> if the machine does _not_ support booting from it?

That's beyond my experience.

poc




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