On 29/12/12 13:14, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA writes:
Is there a way I can install without using the USB flash
drive? There is no optical drive in that box. Is there a
scheme for installing over the LAN connection?
Yes, but first you need to make sure that your target computer
supports booting over the network. Poke in its BIOS, see if you can
find some option that's described somewhere along the lines as being
able to boot over the network. There's usually an option somewhere
that sets the order in which the BIOS attempts to boot, whether the
first device is the hard drive, or the CD/DVD ROM, or USB. If one of
those options is a network boot, you're good to go. That's presuming
that this is a network port on the motherboard. If you have a
standalone network card, the card should have its own internal BIOS
that you can enter during the boot, with an option to enable booting.
The Fedora installation guide has instructions for installing Fedora
over the network, using a network-based boot, so I guess you can
follow along, but you'll need to verify that your motherboard supports
a network-based boot, first, otherwise you'll be wasting your time.
I use a different, slightly order method, BTW, of manually setting up
DHCP, TFTP, and isolinux.
Ok, I will save this and give it a try but for the present I tried
"livecreator" with an external hard drive instead of the flash
drive. For whatever reason the hard drive worked with out a hitch.
The installer was difficult for me to use, among other things gray
text on a light gray background, I gave up and used the install
defaults ...
Thank you,
Bob
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