I have a DVD R/W drive that plugs into a USB port, but I always copy the ISO image to a USB memory stick and it works just fine. You may have to fiddle with BIOS to boot to an external USB device, but I have never had a problem.
I have Fedora 24 and 25, as well as CentOS 6.X and 7.X on USB sticks so I can test hardware in a store and do installs.
On 03/16/2017 11:20 PM, ken wrote:
On 03/16/2017 10:20 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
How does one put centos on a laptop? My understanding that laptops no longer come with optical drives. Booting from an install disk would be difficult. From https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops : Preparation tasks Repartition your harddisk Backup your Master Boot Record (MBR) Modifying your bootloader
My understanding is that most laptops have at most one harddisk. Can it really be unmounted for partitioning?
Not true. Last year I got an HP Envy 17 (and it's still being sold) and it has a DVD r+w. This can't be the only laptop being sold with an optical drive.
Also, a couple months ago I put a "Live USB" (Fedora) Linux distro on a USB stick, booted it, and it came up and worked fine.
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