Installing Fedora with a USB: Step by Step
I had a 2950 without a DVD drive that needed a fresh install of Fedora on it. To further complicate things, I also didn't have any blank CDR's to burn the traditional boot.iso, and only had a small 128MB vendor give away USB disk. Also it was dark and I was blindfolded. Here are the steps taken to overcome at least the first part of this problem: Making a USB boot disk with a small USB drive. First off, make sure your BIOS supports USB booting. Most do now days, but you can run in to some very old BIOS versions that just don't know what to do with the USB ports on bootup. Oftentimes a new BIOS will fix this issue. I needed this one for my Dell PowerEdge 2950's. Using my trusty VMWare appliance FC9 image from VMPlanet.net and the free VMWare player (My company supports FC9 for our product currently, but these methods will work for lots of distributions), I plugged in the USB and mounted it using the "Connect (Disconnect from Host)" menu option under the