Hello, I have an external USB cdrom ; I have a machine which does not have a VGA card and not a standard IDE socket so you cannot connect a CDROM internally to it ; it has USB port; I want to install CentOS using an external USB cdrom on this machine, through the serial port. Is there a way to do it ? I am quite desperate about it. The motherboard DOES enable configuing the BIOS to boot from a USB device. Regards, IB
Ian Brown wrote:> Hello, > I have an external USB cdrom ; I have a machine which does not have > a VGA card and not a standard IDE socket so you cannot connect a > CDROM internally to it ; it has USB port; > I want to install CentOS using an external USB cdrom on this machine, > through the serial port. > > Is there a way to do it ? I am quite desperate about it. > > The motherboard DOES enable configuing the BIOS to boot from a USB > device. >If you set the USB device as bootable in the bios, it should just work. I have used a Sony USB DVD-RW drive to install CentOS on a few laptops and a few 1RU rackmount systems that did not come with integrated optical drives. When you say it lacks a VGA card, does that mean you have no video at all? Cheers,
> > Hello, > I have an external USB cdrom ; I have a machine which does > not have a VGA card and not a standard IDE socket so you > cannot connect a CDROM internally to it ; it has USB port; I > want to install CentOS using an external USB cdrom on this > machine, through the serial port. > > Is there a way to do it ? I am quite desperate about it. > > The motherboard DOES enable configuing the BIOS to boot from > a USB device. Regards, IBTry append console=ttyS0,38400,n8 For using serial port 0, and 38400 baud Gerald