On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 07:04:40PM -0400, Jacob L E Blain Christen wrote: > >>>Is there any way to manually run the install program from the iso > >>>cd's. > >>>My cd-rom drive/pc bios does not support booting from cd-rom's > > I recently had a problem that amounted to the same thing; coulnd't > boot off CDROM's (the Sam's Fedora Core2 Book came with 2 CD1 !!). > I ended up getting a minimal linux install on the machine and > then just copying vmlinuz and initrd.img from the FC2 media's > /isolinux directory onto my /boot drive. I then edited grub.conf > to point to these 2 files and rebooted. All proceded as normal > after this step. > > What's important to helping solve your problem is just getting > a viable boot drive setup so that you can copy over those 2 files. > Use an old RedHat copy or something, picking the most minimalistic > install options. Once that's done you should be good to go. While they are still handy get and burn a set of RH9/FC1 install media that can boot from floppy. There are a number of tricks to get there from here but at some point you have to do some surgery and need floppy based tools. -- T o m M i t c h e l l May your cup runneth over with goodness and mercy and may your buffers never overflow.
