Network or USBDisk install?

[Kam Leo]

On 4/19/06, Antonio Montagnani <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/4/20, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com>:
> > On 4/19/06, James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com> wrote:
> > > Is it possible to install FC5 on either a Network connection or a USB
> > > Disk? I'd like to try FC5 on my laptop, but I don't want to blow away my
> > > current installations (dual boot WinXP & FC4). I have no unallocated
> > > disk space available.
> > >
> > > One other caveat, it does not appear as though my laptop can boot from a
> > > usbdisk. At least I don't see anything for that in the bios.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions? Thanks,
> > > James
> >
> > It is possible to install to USB disk. I would just be careful with
> > the grub installtion - ideally it would work jsut fine.
> >
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> I suggest to have a look at:
>
> http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk/
> http://www.simonf.com/usb/
>
> First link should be sufficient to complete installation. And John is
> very helpful....
>
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If you have a few gigabytes of disk space in either XP or FC4 you
might consider using VMware.  Check to see if there is a VMware player
for FC5.  Run FC5 as a guest OS in either environment.