Re: F7 torrents

Charles Curley wrote:

And for those of us with boxes that don't have DVD drives?
use method hard drive.
you need to put the .iso image on a partition that you wont be formatting.

then the installer asks you which partition, and the folder {from memory}.

That works. Or:

* Put the ISO on another machine, and install via NFS (fastest), HTTP
or FTP. Properly set up, this works very nicely with kickstart.

* Buy a USB clam shell and put a DVD drive in it. Yes, I know, we're
all allergic to spending money. I even used this trick to install on
my ancient laptop with USB 1.1 on it. Slow but it works.

Is there a way to put the dvd image file or directory of CD iso images on a USB external flash or hard drive, boot from something else (perhaps another USB flash drive with the boot image copied to it) and install from those image copies?

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