[wplug] Boot drive work around

[Michael Semcheski]

OK, thanks to Paul and Patrick for the responses.

I can't PXE boot it (don't control my DHCP server.)

I've tried making a USB bootable disk with the minimal install as
Patrick suggested.

dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda

(where sda is my USB flash drive.)

Doing this gives me a looks-good file system, and the computer will
attemp to boot off of it, but it fails.

Hmmm.

On 10/24/07, Paul Armor <parmor at gravity.phys.uwm.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> can you pxe boot it?  If so, you could kick-start it over the network...
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Michael Semcheski wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've got a Thinkpad X41 that I would like to install Fedora on.  The
> > catch is this laptop does not have any built in removable media.
> >
> > I have a 150GB USB drive that I can boot from, but it isn't clear to
> > me what the best way to get an ISO file onto the drive is.  Any ideas?
> >
> > I don't mind having to reformat the USB drive before and after, if necessary.
> >
> > Mike
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