Booting Fedora install with out cdrom drive

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Tue Mar 15 08:37:03 EST 2005


I'm unaware of any support from booting from a dos partition any longer.

If you can't boot from cd rom, your choices are:

	usb memory stick
	pxe (over your ethernet nic) using tftp


Tom Moore writes:
> Hi guys. If I have a dos partition with loadlin on it is there a way I can install Fedora on my machine? The cd drive I have is an external and the system will not boot off of it.
> I know I can do a hd based install if I have the iso images on a partition but I'm wondering how I will boot the install to get it going.
> Thanks for any ideas you guys may have.
> 
> Tommy
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