Booting Fedora install with out cdrom drive

[Janina Sajka]

hank smith writes:
> does dedora still allow tellnet installation?

Absolutely. But, the problem is that you still need to boot the system
you're installing on.

My last installation was on an IBM Thinkpad X31 which has no CD ROM.
When I found I couldn't boot from a USB memory stick, I had to go PXE.
Eventually, with a little help from others on this list, we were able to
boot via PXE and do a telnet installation. We used the PXE to boot the
system, and then telnet in order to have an accessible installation.
Someone sighted would have just continued with without telnet, but for
us it was telnet that provided the Speakup mediated installation
screens.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 5:37 AM
> Subject: Re: Booting Fedora install with out cdrom drive
> 
> 
> >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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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.