how to install on thinkpad with *no* CD-ROM drive
Satish Balay
balay at fastmail.fm
Wed Nov 24 20:25:58 UTC 2004
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> colleague has a 4-YO (or so) "i" series thinkpad, on which the
> cd-rom drive has gone south, but he'd still like to install FC3. the
> system does have a USB floppy drive from which one can boot. so ...
> what are his options? i realize there's no installation boot floppy
> any more with FC.
>
> he mentioned that he's used an intelligent boot manager from
> sourceforge (btmgr) but not in this context. i can certainly make
> the FC3 ISO images available on the net, but how he gets to them is
> the mystery.
My recommendation is to swap the HDD into a different laptop - do the
install (and get the updates esp - rhgb) - and swap back the HDD.
This link was posted earlier on this list.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~colohan/docs/fedora_upgrade.html
Satish
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