[ale] USB Boot/Install Question

[Matt Rideout]

If all you want is a more complete install of FC10, then there's no need 
to reinstall. You can just add the DVD as an RPM repository, then 
install what's missing from within the running FC 10 installation. For 
example:

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
yum install screen

Matt

John Mills wrote, On 08/16/2009 03:26 PM:
> Richard -
>
> Thanks - it won't boot a USB stick 'out of the box'. I was going to 
> install a floppy, boot 'pendrivelinux', and then see if it would find the 
> USB DVD.
>
> Instead I booted the FC10 'liveCD', installed it to my hard drive, and now 
> I'm going to try working through that, so my question becomes:
>
> How can I install a full Linux distribution (FC10 probably the easiest 
> now) when I have a minimal installation in place and the full distribution 
> on a DVD I can mount but not directly boot?
>
> Would GRUB (now on the hard drive) be able to deal with this? How might I 
> proceed?
>
> Thanks.
>   - Mills
>
> On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>
>   
>> Will it boot from a USB flash drive? If so, that would be my choice. I
>> hate burning DVDs to do installs.
>>     
>
>   
>> On 8/16/09, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> ALErs -
>>>       
>
>   
>>> I would like to install a recent Linux on an elderly server (Tyan S2720
>>> motherboard) without internal DVD or provision for boot from DVD on USB.
>>>       
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