On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:18 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 9/29/2016 5:55 PM, Michael B Allen wrote:
It seems optical drives are gone. Do I boot the iso from USB or what's the procedure now?
yup, put iso on USB, go to town.
Mmn, that didn't work. I dd'd the latest Fedora Live iso onto a USB drive, put it into a brand spanking new Dell Latitude E7470, hit F12 at Dell logo and got "Selected boot device failed". Do I need to make it bootable using fdisk or some such?
Mike
On 14/10/16 14:03, Michael B Allen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:18 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 9/29/2016 5:55 PM, Michael B Allen wrote:
It seems optical drives are gone. Do I boot the iso from USB or what's the procedure now?
yup, put iso on USB, go to town.
Mmn, that didn't work. I dd'd the latest Fedora Live iso onto a USB drive, put it into a brand spanking new Dell Latitude E7470, hit F12 at Dell logo and got "Selected boot device failed". Do I need to make it bootable using fdisk or some such?
Not that I recall - a simple dd of the iso onto a usb stick just works see https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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On 10/13/2016 7:10 PM, Rob Kampen wrote:
Mmn, that didn't work. I dd'd the latest Fedora Live iso onto a USB drive, put it into a brand spanking new Dell Latitude E7470, hit F12 at Dell logo and got "Selected boot device failed". Do I need to make it bootable using fdisk or some such?
Not that I recall - a simple dd of the iso onto a usb stick just works see https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
some USB sticks don't seem to like to be boot devices, and I've never figured out why. Sandisk stuff generally seems to work, and most all my current USB sticks are Sandisk Ultra Fit (the really tiny ones, typically in 16GB or 32GB).
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:39 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 10/13/2016 7:10 PM, Rob Kampen wrote:
Mmn, that didn't work. I dd'd the latest Fedora Live iso onto a USB drive, put it into a brand spanking new Dell Latitude E7470, hit F12 at Dell logo and got "Selected boot device failed". Do I need to make it bootable using fdisk or some such?
Not that I recall - a simple dd of the iso onto a usb stick just works see https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
some USB sticks don't seem to like to be boot devices, and I've never figured out why. Sandisk stuff generally seems to work, and most all my current USB sticks are Sandisk Ultra Fit (the really tiny ones, typically in 16GB or 32GB).
That was it. I was able to boot Fedora. I was using a 128GB USB 3.0 drive. I tried a lowly 8GB drive and it worked.
Thanks, Mike
On 10/13/2016 07:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 10/13/2016 7:10 PM, Rob Kampen wrote:
Mmn, that didn't work. I dd'd the latest Fedora Live iso onto a USB drive, put it into a brand spanking new Dell Latitude E7470, hit F12 at Dell logo and got "Selected boot device failed". Do I need to make it bootable using fdisk or some such?
Not that I recall - a simple dd of the iso onto a usb stick just works see https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
some USB sticks don't seem to like to be boot devices, and I've never figured out why. Sandisk stuff generally seems to work, and most all my current USB sticks are Sandisk Ultra Fit (the really tiny ones, typically in 16GB or 32GB).
I've had excellent luck with the 16 GB Mushkin atom - and they are fast too, really fast, I suspect some USB 3 thumb drives are really only USB 2 and there will eventually be a lawsuit. But the Mushkin are really fast.
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 09:03:13PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
Mmn, that didn't work. I dd'd the latest Fedora Live iso onto a USB drive, put it into a brand spanking new Dell Latitude E7470, hit F12 at Dell logo and got "Selected boot device failed". Do I need to make it bootable using fdisk or some such?
Mike
Mike,
So what was it to make you opt for E7470 over, say, Carbon X1? According to RedHat's Hardware compatility list Carbon models are certified, while none of the Dell's aren't
Also, have you given up on CentOS over Fedora? I'd love to hear how's CentOS 7 support for E7470 hardware.
Thanks, Milos.
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