It is 8Gb, the iso 3.5Gb, it should be not the problem... it boots but after boot it relases the usb image and continues installation from internet :-/
Take care On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Miguel Cardenas <mfcarde...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi > > Thanks, I will try again after it finishes the current internet > installation and backup it with clonezilla just to know, if does not work > just will restore the bk... > > Thanks! > > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:34 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloa...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Miguel Cardenas <mfcarde...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hello >> > >> > I've download Fedora 16 to install in onto my new notebook that comes >> with >> > no dvd drive... so I used liveusb to create a bootable USB with the >> ISO... >> > It starts the installation but then it says it does not detect a DVD >> drive >> > and it starts to install slowly via internet, so what is the case of >> > generate the USB with the installation disk? Or what should I do so it >> > installs from the USB? >> > >> > Thanks for your help >> > >> It might be an idea to create a bootable usbkey with the netinst.iso >> file rather than the live usb iso, and also have the DVD iso on the >> usbkey as well, and then boot to netinst.iso and add a kernel line >> parameter of the form repo=hd:device:path-to-iso where the path-to-iso >> points at the DVD iso. >> >> Here "device" might be /dev/sda2 for the usb key or whatever is >> relevant to your machine and the path is relative to the root of the >> usbkey. >> >> I have not tried it with usbkeys for f16 but it is worth a shot - once >> the install is in progress make sure you don't miss the bootloader >> section and make sure that you carefully check or set that it will be >> written to the hard drive and not the usbkey...... you may need to >> switch the bios drive order when you get to that screen in the install >> process. >> -- >> mike c >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> > > > > -- > Miguel Cardenas > -- Miguel Cardenas
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