A bright idea...

[bruce]

so... 

in other words you abused/broke the machine because that's what you wanted!!

interesting...



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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Dotan Cohen
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 10:57 AM
To: phil at themeyerfarm.com; For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: A bright idea...


On 23/06/07, Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com> wrote:
> Karl Larsen 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 :-)
> >
> > Karl
> >
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Have Fun!
>

At my university, the winboxen can boot from usb, but they are
configured to boot ONLY from disk. The BIOS is also password
protected, and the case is locked. What is a poor Fedora junkie to do?

I unplugged one of the machines, then wormed a plastic stick (actually
a stepped-on mechanical pencil) into the case, and actually managed to
pop out the motherboard's button battery! Ten minutes later, there was
no more password on the BIOS...

Dotan Cohen

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