Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 15:01, Richard Smoot wrote:
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>>SUSE 9.1 Pro is a 2.6 kernal and on its DVD Boot folder included 3
>>labeled boot disk files with instructions on how to make them from dos
>>or Linux. It included 5 Module floppy files.
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>Very cool. I'll have to check out what SuSE is doing in 9.1. Red Hat
>has not seemed to tackle the effort involved to do such (I never said it
>was impossible). Hopefully the Fedora team will leech off of those
>efforts for Fedora Core 3/4.
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>>I successfully booted from a backpack USB drive
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>Again, your BIOS must be recent enough to boot from a USB device. That
>was my point with regards to the original thread.
>
>I've booted Fedora Core from solid state USB devices using the 6MB
>"bootdisk" image directly "dd"'d onto it.
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>>and loaded SUSE. I thought I might need the first module disk since
>>that one include USB support, but it didn't ask for it.
>>
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>Did you use the floppy to boot? Or the USB device?
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I started with the first boot floppy and put in the others as asked for
and the install
continued off the USB backpack DVD.
The install was a bit long because this MB is only USB 1.1.
Richard Smoot
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