I don't know if this would help in your case, but I followed the directions given in http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~colohan/docs/fedora_upgrade.html to upgrade without a floppy or a CD-ROM drive. Basically it involves copying the isolinux directory on the first CD to your /boot directory, pointing grub at it and then rebooting. Of course you need to get all four iso files onto your ancient machine ... somehow (ftp, nfs, scp, wget, ...). --- Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://leonora.org/~vladimir 2770 Cowper St. vladimir@xxxxxxx Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 678 8014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> "cc" == Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: cc> cc> I ran into a small problem trying to install FC2 on an ancient machine cc> (it was surplused out by the Romans when they left Britain...). FC2 cc> doesn't come with floppy images for installing, and the BIOS on this cc> thing won't boot to CD-ROM, only hard drive or floppy. cc> cc> I tried faking it out by booting from a mess-dos partition with cc> loadlin, but loadlin didn't like the kernel; something about the cc> compression type. cc> cc> However, I did find an elegant little workaround: install Smart Boot cc> Manager on a floppy. It booted the CD-ROM cc> nicely. http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ cc> cc> Enjoy! cc> cc> Could future releases include, or refer to, Smart Boot Manager for cc> this purpose? cc> cc> -- cc> cc> Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign cc> Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards cc> and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email cc> http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email cc> cc> Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB cc> -- cc> fedora-list mailing list cc> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx cc> To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
