I am having problems installing Fedora Core 3 on an old system I had laying around that I wanted to turn into a print server.
The computer in question is an old NEC Pentium MMX 266, and the problem I am running into is that it just won't seem to boot from the CD Rom drive (adjusted it in the bios), instead it seems to skip over my Fedora disc entirely.
A newer CD drive might help. Seriously.
I did a little bit of looking and found a program that was supposed to allow me to boot from a CD via my floppy drive called smart boot manager http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3?body=about.html but it just gave me a "non system disk" error when I started up with it in the floppy drive.
A daughter (hear from my daughters when they have computer or car problems) had a problem like this. I said "dud floppy." After some discussion she binned it and tried a few more.
Later she reported binning quite a few.
I think that because of the age of the system, it just does not support booting from CD rom (despite what the BIOS may indicate), and hopefully somebody here can point me in the direction of a program that will get the boot started from my floppy drive.
It might be the CD drive is a bit picky about CDs it reads, there were problems like this with early CDs and CD-R media. CD-RW is worse.
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