[CentOS] install CentOS using an external USB cdrom
Gerald Waugh
gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.com
Mon Apr 3 19:37:13 UTC 2006
>
> 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. Regards, IB
Try append console=ttyS0,38400,n8
For using serial port 0, and 38400 baud
Gerald
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