[ale] USB Boot/Install Question

[Richard Bronosky]

Will it boot from a USB flash drive? If so, that would be my choice. I
hate burning DVDs to do installs.

On 8/16/09, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> I would like to install a recent Linux on an elderly server (Tyan S2720
> motherboard) without internal DVD or provision for boot from DVD on USB.
> My SuSE and Fedora installations are on DVDs. The options that occur to me
> are:
>
>   1. CD installation, but I need to make the 'spin' CDs,
>   2. Start a CD installation and specify the USB/DVD as my installation
> medium,
>   3. Some boot manager I could load from CD of floppy to then boot from the
> USB/DVD, or
>   4. Put my distribution DVD on a handy nearby box and export it for a net
> installation.
>
> Approaches (2) and (3) look most attractive to me, but I don't know how to
> do either. Method (3) might be the best for flexibility.
>
> Can someone advise me?
>
> TIA.
>
>   - Mills
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