boot from an SD card

[Mich]

Hello, I just got my nc10 and it’s just great, however I would like to install fedora on it. I don’t have an USB disk but I have an SD card. What is needed to be changed in BIOS to enable boot from the SD card? (is it possible at all?)

[Alfihar]

Unfortunately at this point it is not possible to boot from a card in the in-build card reader.

[Mich]

is there an other way I can install fedora without an USB disk?

[Alfihar]

It should be possible, though not easy.

I would have thought that if you can install GRUB from Windows then you could boot from a disk image of the Linux distribution (not sure if it would work from an NTFS partition), and install that way. I’ve not tried doing this myself though.

EDIT: You could take a look at THIS website, though it is quite old.
Personally I would wait and buy a cheap usb memory stick or an optical drive.

[Mich]

thanks for the info but i think i will just buy a usb memory stick)

[PanMan]

thinking off at a Tangent :

Been a while since I played with Linux but I seem to remember a few years back that Mandrake had an option to install from files on the HDD with the process launched from within Windows.

Just had a quick Google & this may be of interest

Installing Ubuntu Or Fedora From A Windows Or Linux System

[Alfihar]

That’s a nice find, I’d forgotten about UNetBootin.

EDIT: Just noticed that 71notout posted in the Ubuntu on the NC10 thread about successfully using UNetBootin (currently the last post in that thread).

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