On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 13:37 -0400, Jim wrote:
> Fedora 17 new install on a USB connected hard drive.
>
> I have Dell Dimension 2400 with WindowsXP installed, But !! I can't
> get this Dell to Boot off a CDROM.
> by even setting up BIOS to boot off CDROM.
>
> Yes the CD is a Bootable CD.  If you read the CD from within WindowsXP
> it will read the the files on the CD.
>
> I was thinking about taking hard drive out the Dell and USB connect
> the hard drive to another Computer and do a resize of WindowsXP and
> install Fedora on hard drive and setting up the hard drive as a Boot
> drive , then put it back into the Dell 2400.
>
> The Dell hard drive is a IDE drive and My computer is SATA so I can't
> put the Dell hard drive in my PC.
>
> Will it Work ????

Don't you mean a DVD?

If the the procedure I outlined in my previous note does not work Down
load a Live CD. Install it on a usb stick using unetbootin you get from
unetbootin.sourceforge.net

Then use the usb stick to install Fedora 17.

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I have a Dell that came with Linux pre-installed.They don't offer phone support, but they offer very good web support