On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 16:48 -0400, fred smith wrote:
I'm playing around with F11 pre-release, and wanted to install
from the
DVD on an old PII I have here. trouble is I don't have a spare (working)
DVD drive, but I do have a USB DVD drive.
This machine is old enough it won't boot from the USB DVD, so I was
wondering if there is a way to make a bootable CD from the DVD, and
use that bootable CD as we used to use boot floppies, back in the day,
to boot the system far enough to allow access to the DVD and to then
run the installation from the DVD.
Anybody know?
You could just install from a Live CD (I presume the machine has a CD
drive). Once that's up, you should be able to install extra stuff from
the DVD via the USB drive. In fact it's not hard to just configure the
drive as a local repo so yum will consult it when updating (or just copy
the DVD contents to your hard disk and do it from there if you have the
space).
poc