Install to EeePC with external DVD drive?
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 5:01 am
I've been stymied in installing Fedora on an EeePC 701 from an external USB DVD drive. The Fedora 12 installer can't find its install image. One would think that would be on the DVD drive it booted from, but apparently not.
The installer offers an option to find the image on other volumes, but requires a driver it can't find.
I have installed many distros on the EeePC, and this is the first time I've encountered this problem. So I thought: Why not download the Fedora LiveCD, burn it to a USB stick with Unetbootin, boot the Eee from that and forget about the external drive?
Then I see that Amahi does not support LiveCD installation. Another impasse.
The installer offers an option to find the image on other volumes, but requires a driver it can't find.
I have installed many distros on the EeePC, and this is the first time I've encountered this problem. So I thought: Why not download the Fedora LiveCD, burn it to a USB stick with Unetbootin, boot the Eee from that and forget about the external drive?
Then I see that Amahi does not support LiveCD installation. Another impasse.