Re: USB Live Install problem -
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 bobgood...@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 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: USB Live Install problem -
On 12/29/2012 05:04 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Is there a scheme for installing over the LAN connection? from my bookmarks, this link may do it for you; [watch line wrap] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s1-begininstall-perform-nfs-x86.html also, if that does not cover it, google with all these words = fedora install internet and you should find more than what you need. hth. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: USB Live Install problem -
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. pgp9fq95To7tA.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: USB Live Install problem -
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. 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, Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box7 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
