On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 23:01 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote: > On Sunday October 29 2006 18:31, Rick Bilonick wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 18:38 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote: > > > On Sunday October 29 2006 16:49, Rick Bilonick wrote: > > > > I've heard that FC6 can be installed from a USB drive. The RedHat site > > > > that has info on USB install seems to be down. Can anyone explain how > > > > to install FC6 from a USB drive? Do I need to remove everything from my > > > > USB drive and just put the contents from the DVD iso disc onto the USB > > > > drive and change the bios settings to boot from the USB drive? > > > > > > > > Can I put the DVD iso file on my hard drive and install from there? > > > > > > > > Rick > > > > > > You can install from a USB drive you need expert mode to see the USB > > > devices at boot. > > > > > > Alternatively, you can put the DVD image in a filesystem that will not be > > > updated during the install/upgrade process. You still need to boot from > > > the boot.iso or ore of the other images in the image directory on the DVD > > > image. Booting from the rescue CD should also work. At the boot prompt > > > respond " linux askmethod" > > > > OK, I loaded the DVD disk contents to the USB hard drive. But I'm > > wondinger if I should be copying the iso file itself. When I boot the > > DVD iso file, I eventually get to a menu that includes /dev/sda1 and > > asks for a directory holding "images". I've tried putting several things > > here (like "images") but it reports "Failed to read > > directory /tmp/hdimage/images: No such file or directory." > > > OK how did you copy the DVD.iso to the USB drive? > I'm guessing that you mounted the image -o loop and then > did some kind of a recursive copy down the tree of the loopback mount-point > to the USB disk. If that's the case the directory containing the image > is /dev/sda1. Unfortunately, no. The iso file is on my work computer. All I had was the DVD install disk which I copied to the hard drive and of course it doesn't work. I'll save a copy of the iso file as a data file on a DVD, and then copy it to the hard drive and mount it as you suggest. I should have known that from other things I've done. I think it should be something like: mount FC-6-x86_64-DVD.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /some_mount_pt I'm still not clear as to the directory. If I dump the iso to the USB drive or to the hard drive, there are going to be other directories and files on the drive. Somehow I have to tell it where to find things but it's unclear to me. Thanks for your help. Rick
