{"id":82,"date":"2006-12-08T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T18:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2012-02-22T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:47:09","slug":"install-fedora-core-6-wexternal-dvd-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/2006\/12\/install-fedora-core-6-wexternal-dvd-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Fedora Core 6 w\/external DVD drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve actually been trying to figure out how to do this for a while and not having much luck. Here&#8217;s my situation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have a computer that has a CD drive in it, but not a DVD drive.<\/li>\n<li>I had previously downloaded the DVD version of Fedora Core 6 in to install it on a different machine.<\/li>\n<li>I have an external USB DVD drive.<\/li>\n<li>My BIOS does not support booting from a USB device<\/li>\n<li>I wanted to avoid having to use up a lot of CD-R&#8217;s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I went hunting in Google. I found pretty much nothing. After some investigation, I discovered that the Fedora Core 6 ISO has a file, <tt>images\/boot.iso<\/tt>, that when burned to a CD provides a bootable media that can then read the external USB DVD. It&#8217;s really simple, but it took me quite some time to figure it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve actually been trying to figure out how to do this for a while and not having much luck. Here&#8217;s my situation: I have a computer that has a CD drive in it, but not a DVD drive. I had previously downloaded the DVD version of Fedora Core 6 in to install it on a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/2006\/12\/install-fedora-core-6-wexternal-dvd-drive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Install Fedora Core 6 w\/external DVD drive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[58,57,56],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EJi-1k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.steenhagen.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}