On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 19:05 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:36:30 -0500 > Rick Bilonick <rab@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > As long as your BIOS will boot from a USB drive, it is not a > > > problem. I would suggest you try the live CD to see if F8 is going > > > to work for you before doing a USB install. > > Even if the bios doesn't support it you can still do trickery. > Find a live CD that has "kexec" available on the live CD, then > boot off the live CD and kexec the kernel from the USB drive > (of course, it isn't the fastest boot process in the world :-). > My problem does not involve not being able to boot from a CD or DVD. The laptop will certainly do that. My problem is that I need specific firmware for the network card that is not in the live CD/DVD distro. (One solution would be to put the firmware on the hard drive and somehow link this with the live CD - but I have no clue on how to do this. The other possibility is using ndiswrapper but that involves installing it and firmware - again I don't know how to do that with a live CD.) I'm going to try to make a bootable USB flash drive - I have one that is 1 gb and that should be enough space. Rick B.
