Installing from USB DVD drive
If I have SuSE on DVD but the computer does not have a DVD drive, is it possible to boot with a floppy then launch the installation from an external USB DVD drive? Thank you. Bryan ******************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional KDE 3.3.0 KMail 1.7.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ********************************************************
If I have SuSE on DVD but the computer does not have a DVD drive, is it possible to boot with a floppy then launch the installation from an external USB DVD drive? I believe it is. I copied the DVD image to a directory on my laptop, and
On Thursday 31 March 2005 8:23 am, Bryan Tyson wrote: performed a hard disk install on the laptop and an NFS install on an old Compaq Deskpro. I also copied the image from my laptop to a directory on my desktop system at home. The main thing you need to do is to make sure the drivers are all loaded including ReiserFS. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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