On Mon, 17 May 2004, Guy Fraser wrote: > david wrote: > > > One of my systems does not support CD-ROM boostrap. FC1 provided a > > bootstrap diskette which solved the problem, and let me install from > > the network or from CDROM, both of which worked for me. > > > > Is this capability going to be maintained in future version of Fedora? > > > > If not, is there some option that would work? pxe boot is fastest if your ethernet card/bios has support for it. failing that these two options will work. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-April/msg02978.html > > David Kurn > > I would presume that boot floppies should be around for a little > while longer but floppies are too small to be used much longer. > > I have been noticing more and more computers being sold that don't > come with floppy drives anymore. I'm not just talking about Mac's > either. We have a bunch of little machines we use for single > purpose servers, and they don't come with a floppy or CD, so we > hookup a CD to get the install started and do a network install. > > Good luck. > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
