Bootable CD ...

[Snyder, Alexander J]

I've never installed *anything* over the network.

Can you give me a solid tutorial to follow?

On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 11:44 AM Harold Hartley <wheelie207 at ownmail.net>
wrote:

> It won’t recognize the usb ssd unless you upgrade the bios.
>
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, at 11:41, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:
>
> The internal drive is recognized by the BIOS, but fails to spin up.
>
> The Laptop was built in 2009 by Puget Systems (
> https://www.pugetsystems.com/), so yes, the hardware is old, but I highly
> doubt it's "Too Old" for Linux. I found another USB SSD I bought the same
> time as the laptop, so I'm going to try and format that and see if it works
> as a bootable device.
>
> Trying to get CentOS 7 on it, but I'm flirting with the idea of trying
> Manjaro on it.
>
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 10:50 Matthew Gibson <guanjun.de.geliqian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Does it have the ability to boot from network? Didn't you say that the
> laptop has an internal DVD/CD drive? Could your install media need to be
> locked in some way after the burn is complete? Is the ISO too new to work
> with old hard ware?
> >
> > These are a few of my thoughts. I'll see if I can find my own drives to
> burn a disc for you.
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 8:57 AM Snyder, Alexander J <
> alexander at snyderfamily.co> wrote:
> >> I wasn't able to go to Installfest, we had guests.
> >>
> >> After they left, I went hunting in the garage and found an old DVD-R
> (USB). I went to Best Buyand got a few blank DVDs. So, it won't read from a
> 2019 USB-SSD, but it'll boot from a ~2015 USB-DVD drive?
> >>
> >> I can get into the CentOS 7 setup but it fails to verify the media, and
> refuses to continue. When I skip verify, it still fails by saying the media
> is not fit for install.
> >>
> >> So now I'm really confused.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Alexander
> >>
> >> Sent from my Galaxy S10+
> >>
> >> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 08:43 Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:
> >>> On 2019-08-03 10:49, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:
> >>>  > Does anyone have a bootable Linux CD?
> >>>  > I don't have a burner, or discs. So I'm asking for help!
> >>>  > Can someone burn CentOS7 minimal for me?
> >>>
> >>>  Did you get a CD from Installfest? If not, I have a DVD+-RW and a
> CD-R
> >>>  blank somewhere around here. Reply with your snail-mail address if
> you
> >>>  still need help.
> >>>
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