Re: linux flash drive support??

From: B. T. Raven (ecinmn_at_peoplepc.com)
Date: 10/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 05:07:36 GMT

Okay, thanks. I can get either a single dvd of fc4 or a 4 cd set. With
grub stomping on the win2k master boot record I can't run the cmos setup
anymore (???) to see if the cd/dvd precedes the hd in the boot sequence.
Can a HL-DT-ST GCC 1320B be set up somehow to boot from a dvd?

Thanks again.

"Kenneth C. Vendler" <kenneth.vendler@fuse.net> wrote in message
news:op.szdbqksi0w9vhm@pc121161970429...
> I doubt it would work, because Red Hat 8 components were compiled with
> much older libs. The FC4 kernel most likely requires newer libs to be
> compiled. This would more than likely cause issues. Bad issues man :-)
>
> If you are like me and don't have broadband to download the 3-4 FC4
CDs,
> then they can be purchased from various online stores for a few bucks.
>
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:26:25 -0400, B. T. Raven <ecinmn@peoplepc.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > "JDS" <jeffrey@example.invalid> wrote in message
> > news:pan.2005.10.28.15.32.53.144119@example.invalid...
> >> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 03:32:11 +0000, B. T. Raven wrote:
> >>
> >> > Any suggestions
> >>
> >> Upgrade to a newer Red Hat based distro. RHL8 is really quite old
at
> > this
> >> point (and was never very good in the first place).
> >>
> >> e.g.
> >> Fedora Core 4
> >> CentOS 4
> >> Red Hat Enterprise 4
> >>
> >> I have used removable USB storage devices on these with no problems
at
> >> all. Don't even have to muck about with fstab, typically.
> >>
> >> IMO, the newer kernel (2.6.x) that comes with the newer distros
works
> >> better with USB devices and newer ditros also tend to be configured
> > better
> >> out of the box to seamlessly find USB devices and let you use them.
> >
> > Thanks, HP and JDS. Is it possible to just download a binary of the
> > Fedora 4 kernel and use that with the rest of my version 8? I'm not
a
> > programmer, so I don't know anything about build, make, and the rest
of
> > that geeky stuff.
> >

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