[Novalug] Red Hat /Fedora distribution from thumb drive
James Ewing Cottrell 3rd
JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Wed Nov 16 18:29:25 EST 2011
You still haven't answered my question....
Why use syslinux instead of grub???
Syslinux is a Windows thing.
JIM
On 11/16/2011 9:54 AM, Miles D. Oliver wrote:
> Unetbootin creates its own menu screen and I found it cumbersome to
> try and use it as an install method to mess with the menu and
> config to try and make it appear as a default install for Red Hat and
> Fedora.
> This is why I shared how I've done it using syslinux to make a boot
> block and copying the contents of the isolinux directory to root and
> renaming islolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg. It boots fine and I've done
> lots of installs this way. I used to burn DVDs but I'm finding now
> that with Fedora 'preupgrade' is working well to upgrade from several
> previous versions of Fedora on my laptop.
> I just built the USB and this did this with my laptop to upgrade to
> FC16 to confirm it still works but choosing the upgrade method went a
> little differently with FC16 than I remember from before when I have
> done it. It never read the rpms from the USB drive, it did the
> upgrade by pulling the files from the Internet. I'll have to try it
> in a new installation and see if it will use the files locally of the
> USB.
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Alex Smith (K4RNT)
> <shadowhunter@gmail.com <mailto:shadowhunter@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> There's a utility called Unetbootin, that will provision a LiveUSB
> disk:
>
> http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 17:03, jerry w <jerrywone@gmail.com
> <mailto:jerrywone@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > you had me until you said slackware ;-)
> >
> > Puppy has been some fun.
> > XOPup did nice things on OLPC XOs
> > for a bit the other day.
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:57 PM, The Doctor <drwho@virtadpt.net
> <mailto:drwho@virtadpt.net>> wrote:
> >>
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> >> On 11/13/2011 10:07 AM, John Place wrote:
> >> > One interesting distro Puppy Linux.. http://puppylinux.org
> <http://puppylinux.org/>
> >>
> >> I'd also like to mention Porteus Linux (http://porteus.org/).
> >>
> >> The distro boots insanely fast, is small (about 250 MB), and
> has two
> >> full desktop environments (KDE v3.5 and LXDE). It's also binary
> >> compatible with Slackware v13.37.
> >>
> >> - --
> >> The Doctor [412/724/301/703]
> >>
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> >> WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/
> >>
> >> "Here sharky! Here! Here, boy!" --Anthony Bourdain
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