Well, since you've solved it using a real drive, this is a bit late, but, ...
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
<bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net> wrote:
On 29/12/12 13:14, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
> Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA writes:
>
>> Is there a way I can install without using the USB flash
>> drive? There is no optical drive in that box. Is there a
>> scheme for installing over the LAN connection?
>
>
> Yes, but first you need to make sure that your target computer supports
> booting over the network. Poke in its BIOS, see if you can find some option
> that's described somewhere along the lines as being able to boot over the
> network. There's usually an option somewhere that sets the order in which
> the BIOS attempts to boot, whether the first device is the hard drive, or
> the CD/DVD ROM, or USB. If one of those options is a network boot, you're
> good to go. That's presuming that this is a network port on the motherboard.
> If you have a standalone network card, the card should have its own internal
> BIOS that you can enter during the boot, with an option to enable booting.
>
> The Fedora installation guide has instructions for installing Fedora over
> the network, using a network-based boot, so I guess you can follow along,
> but you'll need to verify that your motherboard supports a network-based
> boot, first, otherwise you'll be wasting your time.
>
> I use a different, slightly order method, BTW, of manually setting up
> DHCP, TFTP, and isolinux.
>
>
>
Ok, I will save this and give it a try but for the present I tried
"livecreator" with an external hard drive instead of the flash
drive. For whatever reason the hard drive worked with out a hitch.
usb drives are known to be pretty finicky. They are built cheap
firstmost and foremost.
But, something I found worked for me, after reading the warning about
the reset mbr option, run it from the command line and add the reset
master boot record option:
liveusb-creator --reset-mbr
I'm guessing this will be especially useful for drives that have been
reformatted and such.
(Use the --help option to find more options.)
The installer was difficult for me to use, among other things
gray
text on a light gray background, I gave up and used the install
defaults ...
Thank you,
(I've been thinking we need to re-emphasize the install processes that
don't require rebooting just to start the install.)
--
Joel Rees