[ale] USB Boot/Install Question

[John Mills]

Richard -

Thanks - it won't boot a USB stick 'out of the box'. I was going to 
install a floppy, boot 'pendrivelinux', and then see if it would find the 
USB DVD.

Instead I booted the FC10 'liveCD', installed it to my hard drive, and now 
I'm going to try working through that, so my question becomes:

How can I install a full Linux distribution (FC10 probably the easiest 
now) when I have a minimal installation in place and the full distribution 
on a DVD I can mount but not directly boot?

Would GRUB (now on the hard drive) be able to deal with this? How might I 
proceed?

Thanks.
  - Mills

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Richard Bronosky wrote:

> 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.