Installing FC6 from USB drive

[Jim Cornette]

Rick Bilonick wrote:
>> I believe that you need to start the install using expert mode. Then you 
>> should be prompted for install from hard drive. There should be a prompt 
>> for the device followed by a prompt for directory where you locate the 
>> iso file or files. Anaconda should do the mount and loop functionality 
>> steps.
>>
>> This worked for an IDE drive. I am not sure if it would work for getting 
>> the files from a USB drive though. It should, but am not positive.
>>
>> Without running expert, USB drive drivers are not loaded.
>>
>> Your experimentation required.
>>
>> Jim
>>
> As I think I now understand, I need to copy the iso file to the hard
> drive (or usb drive)? Is that correct?

That is the way that I did a hard disk install. I just put the iso files 
in a directory of type ext3 under an easy to remember and type directory 
name. When the installer came up, I chose the hard disk install method. 
I then entered the device or chose one of the available selections. I 
cannot recall how fancy or plain the installation was. I then added the 
directory name.
As mentioned earlier USB hard drives are only detected when booted into 
expert mode with 'linux expert' entered at the boot prompt. Without 
choosing that install option, usb hard disks are not detected.

  When I had just copied the files
> from the DVD install disk I burned, when I was prompted for a device I
> would put /dev/hda1 

This should probably be /dev/sda1 or whatever the drive is recognized 
as. If the designation is still the same as I used to see with usb hard 
disks.

and then for a directory I would put the directory
> info but it always said something like that it could not find the
> directory and it would append "/tmp/hddrive" to the directory info I
> gave (I don't remember exactly except for /tmp).

It might be because of the destination not being detected because usb 
hard drives are referred to as sdx devices instead of hdx devices. 
Either that or it is a horrible bug that was newly introduced.
> 
> Rick B.
> 

Jim

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