On 4/7/2011 10:08 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
There is one quirk about USB booting that I forgot: it is likely to confuse the installer's concept of disk names and where to install grub.
The thing to watch for with this is "Disk ordering" in the grub setup (only in the graphical installer). Generally Anaconda remaps your devices so the USB stick becomes /dev/sda, then you get Grub installed on the stick.
I solved all of that last year, and the link I posted covered it all.
I gave up reading that when I saw stuff about converting an iso to a usb boot, none of which needs to be done for an nfs install using the boot.img which is already usable. Do you have a link for the relevant part?
The OP, I *think*, was asking how to install without a DVD drive - it wasn't clear to me what they needed, but since they talked about not having a drive for optical media, I assumed they were looking for alternatives besides network install.
No, he has another linux box and a network. The only issue is booting into the installer without a CD/DVD drive.