boot to USB from CD

[ACiD GRiM]

I have 6 older computers I'm trying to install a custom spin of Fedora that I made into a liveusb drive. The computers don't support USB boot, so I'd like a QUICK way to install a boot loader onto the installed HDD, configure it to point to the USB drive. I really hope there's a fast way because I don't have time to do some typical linux mumbojumbo just to install linux.

[TomasM]

I use the PLoP Boot Manager (http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html) to do this, which is closed-source but free for personal and commercial use. You can either install this as a (primary) bootloader, or (like I do) follow these (http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html#rungrub) instructions to call it from GRUB. The first method is easier if you don't already have GRUB installed, and you can follow the second after you've installed Fedora (if you want to boot from USB again after Fedora's installed - PLoP Boot Manager can't load Linux).

The next version of GRUB should have boot-from-USB support, but it's still in development - you can get a snapshot right now that might work, but it would be complicated.