I am trying to install fedora-fc2 on a pc. i have successfully downloaded and burnt to cd the four iso images. i have even burnt the boot.iso and copied the diskboot.image file onto a zip-100 disk (using dd). (both of these camee from ISO disk #1) I would have guessed i was all set, but noooo....
the PC on which i am a attempting to install Fedora will not recognize either the boot.iso or the zip (a usb device) as bootable.
I am certain i have copied the images onto their respective media properly. why? because I can see their contents (from another RH 9.0 PC):
The diskboot.image file dd-ed onto the zip as a bunch of .msg, .bin, .sys, .cfg files plus a vmlinuz.
The boot.iso CD consists of a TRANS.tbl file and a directory called isolinux that contains the same files as the (diskboot.image) zip disk)
It almost makes sense to me that the boot.iso is not a bootable media becuse i would not have expected the boot files to be in a directory (isolinux) but at the top level! I almost wonder if the boot.iso file that came with the first Fedora disk was incorrectly put together.
i do not know why the pc will not boot off the zip disk. the bios has support for it, since it lets me choose 'zip100' from a menu of devices to check at boot time. my guess is that it's because it's a USB device and not an IDE device? anyway, all my USB-related bios setting are enabled, so i do not think it's a setting. maybe my bios simply does not support booting from USB devices, period.
so...what do i do? any ideas?
eg, is there a way for me to split the diskboot.image across multiple floppies and boot up like that?
(for the record, the target PC is currently running RH 9.0 as well.
so i tried copying the 4 Fedora ISO files to a 2nd hard drive on that
PC and, using my trusty RH 9.0 floppy boot.img, i booted up the PC and
tried to perform an install from the local hard drive. however, the RH
install stuff was too smart for that to work since it would not recognize
the Fedora ISOs. Not surprising i suppose and maybe not even smart on my part,
but i was/am getting desperate.)
thanks,
- rich
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