so... in other words you abused/broke the machine because that's what you wanted!! interesting... -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dotan Cohen Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 10:57 AM To: phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Subject: Re: A bright idea... On 23/06/07, Phil Meyer <pmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
