Installing from an external USB drive may be a problem because you probably need to mount it first. And you may not be able to do that until Fedora is installed. A safer option may be to burn the Live version of Fedora to CD and use that either to install the full version or to mount your external DVD drive. You can consider a full net install without using either a CD or DVD. The Live CD also allows you to access the internet and the Fedora IRC channels if you have installation problems which is added bonus. Finally, the Fedora IRC channels are the best forum for your query. You are more likely to receive immediate and expert advice over there Rubyxx "???? ?????? ??" <manne@post.harvard.edu> wrote in message news:1189095653.404060.158980@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com... > Hello, > I have the Fedora 7 distro on a DVD, and I want to install from my > external DVD drive, which connects to the system over USB. I set up > the BIOS to boot from the DVD, and the installation process started. > Unfortunately, when the process asked which drive to boot from, it did > not see the DVD drive any more; it offered only the internal CD drive, > the HD, the diskette drive and the network. How can I install from an > external DVD? > Thanks, > Aharon >