Re: [CentOS] CentOS on new Dell

2016-10-23 Thread Milos Blazevic 
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 09:03:13PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
> Mmn, that didn't work. I dd'd the latest Fedora Live iso onto a USB
> drive, put it into a brand spanking new Dell Latitude E7470, hit F12
> at Dell logo and got "Selected boot device failed". Do I need to make
> it bootable using fdisk or some such?
> 
> Mike

Mike, 

So what was it to make you opt for E7470 over, say, Carbon X1? According to 
RedHat's Hardware compatility list
Carbon models are certified, while none of the Dell's aren't 

Also, have you given up on CentOS over Fedora? I'd love to hear how's CentOS 7 
support for E7470 hardware. 


Thanks,
Milos.
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS on new Dell

2016-10-14 Thread Michael B Allen 
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:39 PM, John R Pierce  wrote:
> On 10/13/2016 7:10 PM, Rob Kampen wrote:
>>>
>>> Mmn, that didn't work. I dd'd the latest Fedora Live iso onto a USB
>>> drive, put it into a brand spanking new Dell Latitude E7470, hit F12
>>> at Dell logo and got "Selected boot device failed". Do I need to make
>>> it bootable using fdisk or some such?
>>
>> Not that I recall - a simple dd of the iso onto a usb stick just works see
>> https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
>
>
> some USB sticks don't seem to like to be boot devices, and I've never
> figured out why.   Sandisk stuff generally seems to work, and most all my
> current USB sticks are Sandisk Ultra Fit (the really tiny ones, typically in
> 16GB or 32GB).

That was it. I was able to boot Fedora. I was using a 128GB USB 3.0
drive. I tried a lowly 8GB drive and it worked.

Thanks,
Mike
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS on new Dell

2016-10-13 Thread Alice Wonder 

On 10/13/2016 07:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote:

On 10/13/2016 7:10 PM, Rob Kampen wrote:

Mmn, that didn't work. I dd'd the latest Fedora Live iso onto a USB
drive, put it into a brand spanking new Dell Latitude E7470, hit F12
at Dell logo and got "Selected boot device failed". Do I need to make
it bootable using fdisk or some such?

Not that I recall - a simple dd of the iso onto a usb stick just works
see
https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey


some USB sticks don't seem to like to be boot devices, and I've never
figured out why.   Sandisk stuff generally seems to work, and most all
my current USB sticks are Sandisk Ultra Fit (the really tiny ones,
typically in 16GB or 32GB).




I've had excellent luck with the 16 GB Mushkin atom - and they are fast 
too, really fast, I suspect some USB 3 thumb drives are really only USB 
2 and there will eventually be a lawsuit. But the Mushkin are really fast.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS on new Dell

2016-10-13 Thread John R Pierce 

On 10/13/2016 7:10 PM, Rob Kampen wrote:

Mmn, that didn't work. I dd'd the latest Fedora Live iso onto a USB
drive, put it into a brand spanking new Dell Latitude E7470, hit F12
at Dell logo and got "Selected boot device failed". Do I need to make
it bootable using fdisk or some such?
Not that I recall - a simple dd of the iso onto a usb stick just works 
see

https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey


some USB sticks don't seem to like to be boot devices, and I've never 
figured out why.   Sandisk stuff generally seems to work, and most all 
my current USB sticks are Sandisk Ultra Fit (the really tiny ones, 
typically in 16GB or 32GB).



--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS on new Dell

2016-10-13 Thread Rob Kampen 

On 14/10/16 14:03, Michael B Allen wrote:

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:18 PM, John R Pierce  wrote:

On 9/29/2016 5:55 PM, Michael B Allen wrote:

It seems optical drives are gone. Do I boot the iso from USB or what's
the procedure now?

yup, put iso on USB, go to town.

Mmn, that didn't work. I dd'd the latest Fedora Live iso onto a USB
drive, put it into a brand spanking new Dell Latitude E7470, hit F12
at Dell logo and got "Selected boot device failed". Do I need to make
it bootable using fdisk or some such?

Not that I recall - a simple dd of the iso onto a usb stick just works see
 https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey

Mike
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS on new Dell

2016-10-13 Thread Michael B Allen 
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:18 PM, John R Pierce  wrote:
> On 9/29/2016 5:55 PM, Michael B Allen wrote:
>>
>> It seems optical drives are gone. Do I boot the iso from USB or what's
>> the procedure now?
>
> yup, put iso on USB, go to town.

Mmn, that didn't work. I dd'd the latest Fedora Live iso onto a USB
drive, put it into a brand spanking new Dell Latitude E7470, hit F12
at Dell logo and got "Selected boot device failed". Do I need to make
it bootable using fdisk or some such?

Mike
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