Thanks.
When you say it lacks a VGA card, does that mean you have no video at all?
It has no video,no regular keyboard, no PS/2 mouse port; all the communication is through the serial port. Regards, IB
On 4/3/06, Chris Mauritz chrism@imntv.com wrote:
Ian Brown wrote:
Hello, I have an external USB cdrom ; I have a machine which does not have a VGA card and not a standard IDE socket so you cannot connect a CDROM internally to it ; it has USB port; I want to install CentOS using an external USB cdrom on this machine, through the serial port.
Is there a way to do it ? I am quite desperate about it.
The motherboard DOES enable configuing the BIOS to boot from a USB device.
If you set the USB device as bootable in the bios, it should just work. I have used a Sony USB DVD-RW drive to install CentOS on a few laptops and a few 1RU rackmount systems that did not come with integrated optical drives. When you say it lacks a VGA card, does that mean you have no video at all?
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