How to create F8 install CD's from DVD?

cgc2 · 04-09-2008, 07:17 PM

My server has only a CD drive. How can I create CD's from the DVD?

Thx

lazlow · 04-09-2008, 07:55 PM

The easiest thing is just to swap in a DVD drive to do the install. Baring that you can p2p a cd set from Fedora Unity (not officially Fedora).

billymayday · 04-09-2008, 08:10 PM

Is there a live CD for F8 that you can install from?

cgc2 · 04-09-2008, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lazlow

The easiest thing is just to swap in a DVD drive to do the install. Baring that you can p2p a cd set from Fedora Unity (not officially Fedora).

Thx. Being that it is a 1U server it doesn't take "normal" cd drives. I am dl'ing the respin now.

salasi · 04-10-2008, 09:01 AM

My approach to this is to have a DVD drive in an USB housing, so you have DVD available to any computer with a spare USB port (although not all ancient computers will boot from an external DVD in this way).

Recently brought up a box with no removable media in this way and its not too slow, although clearly not as fast as an internal DVD.

lazlow · 04-10-2008, 01:19 PM

For those that will not boot from USB you can make a handoff boot CD (assuming a CD drive is available). Basically you boot to the cd and it points over to the USB DVD (or any usb device).