A bright idea...
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Jun 24 19:32:37 UTC 2007
Phil Meyer wrote:
>>
>> Why not buy a 4 GB Flash USB device for around $50.00 and load F7
>> on that and then plug it into the USB port of the computer to upgrade
>> and away you go. Cheaper than a DVD drive with a USB port :-)
>>
>
> Yup. My normal mode of operations. I carry around a 4GB USB thumb
> drive with two partitions: 1 = boot ; 2 = FAT32 with a custom (pungi
> rocks!) DVD image on it.
Is there a howto somewhere about the partitioning needed for this? Or is
it just a matter of making the first partition large enough for a raw
copy of the boot.img file, then reformatting what's left? Can you
specify a kickstart file on the 2nd partition? How do you know where it
will be mounted?
> So last week-end my son asks me to build him a media server. I travel
> to his place because I want to see my grand babies. No sweat. I pop
> out my thumb drive -- hmmm... won't boot usb. OK -- hmmm... can't burn
> a DVD for him, he doesn't have a DVD in that system. OK, mount the DVD
> image on my laptop and burn the diskboot.iso to a CDR. Plug in the USB
> to his system, boot the bootable CD and proceed to load from the USB
> stick via my custom kickstart scripts.
>
> Whew!
>
> The moral of the story?
>
> Not all systems will boot from USB, and not all systems have DVD
> players. :) Keep a CDR in your laptop bag.
You could also export the dvd image via NFS from the laptop and install
over the network.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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