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 at 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? > > Cheers, > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >