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Old 24th October 2005, 06:58 PM
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Unhappy Unable Installing from USB CD-RW drive

I'm attempting to install FC4 on a machine I have at work that does not have an internal floppy or CD drive. It CAN however boot off of an external CD drive. I know it works because I was able to perfectly install a couple different flavors of Windows with this method. My problem is that both Linux distros I have tried (FC4 and Suse 9.3 Pro) both fail once I attempt to start the install. Once I choose the packages and have the partitions set up the way I want, I start the install. At this point, both fail and tell me that they can't find the installation media. Any workarounds for this? Thanks!

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Old 25th October 2005, 05:13 AM
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Just try this for installing : at the linux prompt type :
linux expert
if it doesn't, try this :
linux askmethod expert
For me the second works fine
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Old 25th October 2005, 05:47 PM
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Worked perfectly! Thanks much!
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