On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 20:21, David Liguori wrote: > I at first tried installing FC1 from a separate box nfs-exporting the > mounted ISO's. I've successfully done network installs of other > distros. Unfortunately, I couldn't make a readable floppy of > drvnet.img, using either rawrite or dd, using 3 different dos and/or > Linux machines. I tried re-downloading the file from different > mirrors. Then I tried the file from my RH9 CD's. The result was always > the same: unreadable disk. > > Due to bios issues I am unable to boot from CD, even though my system > supposedly supports it. It occurs to me the drvnet.img file has always > been bad and I am the only person on the planet who has tried to use > it. Has anyone had success with it? (I ended up burning the ISO's and > installing from CD, but I'd like to try a net install next go-round). David, NFS installations have worked well for me in the past. The only "gotcha" I know of is to be sure to append a / to the end of your NFS drive spec. Some basic things to check: $ md5sum yarrow-i386-disc1.iso 76ef22495d186580e47efd8d7a65fe6b yarrow-i386-disc1.iso If you get a different answer, either rsync to repair it or download a replacement iso file. Then as root: # mount /path-to/yarrow-i386-disc1.iso /mnt -t iso9660 -o loop # md5sum /mnt/images/drvnet.img d0ab7a6028aa0992ec641d429c2d036b /mnt/images/drvnet.img If and only if both of these md5sums are correct: # dd if=/mnt/images/drvnet.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=2048 720+0 records in 720+0 records out # umount /mnt If you can't boot from this floppy disk, you may have a bad floppy disk drive. Check the ribbon cable and its connectors first. If they're OK, remove & replace the drive. They're cheap and relatively easy to find. Hope this helps.... --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
