Starting the installation from a USB key
ilyes gouta
ilyes.gouta at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 08:56:38 UTC 2005
Hi everybody,
I'm willing to install the Fedora Core 3 on my laptop (Thinkpad R50) .
I got the installation CDs from a friend which told me that the first
CD can't be used to boot the system and kickoff the install.
On the /readme of that CD it written that bootdisk.img can be used to
bootstrap the installation from a USB stick. I tried the following
from my aging Mandrake 9.2 distro. :
% dd if=/mnt/cdrom/image/bootdisk.img of=/dev/sda4
Where /dev/sda4 is my USB stick which is unmounted.
I '% reboot' the machine w/ my USB stick plugged, told the BIOS to
boot from a HDD USB (which correctly detected my stick) and crossed my
finger... -> Nothing, the system just displays "Missing operating
system" and hangs..
Any idea ? How to bootstrap the installation from a USB stick ?
Thanks in advance.
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