MUCH MUCH THANKS
This is the best formulated advice I've seen, and is something I will work through.
Thanks
At 03:42 PM 5/18/2004, you wrote:
>>>>> "d" == david <david@xxxxxxxx> writes:
d> I and others on the list have asked for help because of no floppy d> bootstrap install capability for installing FC2.
The bottom line is that the kernel no longer fits on a floppy. So you absolutely have to get the kernel from somewhere else. You've said that USB and CD are out. That leaves network and hard disk.
If you have an existing Red Hat/Fedora installation, you can just stick the initrd and vmlinuz from the FC2 isolinux directory in /boot, edit grub.conf and reboot:
title Reinstall root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-fc2 ramdisk_size=9216 initrd /initrd-fc2
No existing installation? You could do a minimal install of an older version. Or install grub onto a floppy and use the network install functionality. Yes, you must have a TFTP server elsewhere on the network. It's not hard to install and configure. Assuming you have another Fedora machine, just install the tftp-server package, "chkconfig tftp on", and stick your initrd and vmlinuz in /tftpboot. Then investigate the network booting section of the Grub manual; basically it's just
ifconfig --address=X.X.X.X --server=Y.Y.Y.Y
using the address of the machine you're installing and the TFTP server, respectively. Then it's just
root (nd) kernel /vmlinux-fc2 ramdisk_size=9216 initrd /initrd-fc2 boot
You may have to tweak those paths.
d> 4) Use tftp - gosh ... I wouldn't even know where to start for d> that.
It's not exactly difficult. You said you have a server to do an FTP install, and setting up a TFTP server is way simpler than an FTP server.
Perhaps I just wasted my time, and what you really want isn't help to make it work but for someone to magically make floppy booting work again. I can't help there.
- J<
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