[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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