Thanks for the info Ben. Ben Smith wrote: > > Bill Somerville wrote: > > >Hello > > > >I have Fedora Core 2 binary CD's. > > > >Disk 1 boots OK on another machine. > > > >I have a problem with two other machines. > > > >On one that boots other Linux distro CD's the FC2 disk 1 fails to boot > >with messages about "winging it" then "unable to find specs". > > > >On another the CD has never booted anything (no BIOS support I think). > > > >How do I proceed? I cannot find any docs on booting from floppy. > > > >I have copied the distro files to an nfs share on another machine - but > >still need some sort of bootstrap. > > > >TIA > >Bill Somerville > > > > > > > > On the one that gives errors, how much memory does it have? The Fedora > installer requires 64 megs. 128 Mb but your solution workrd for this one anyway. > > On the other, there a few options. I find these to be the easiest, as > long as you can boot from a floppy: > > Smart Boot Manager: http://btmgr.webframe.org/ Tried this and got confused, docs aren't too good. It doesn't seem to be able to boot my CD-ROM. > Generic Linux Boot Floppy: http://www.deesconsulting.com/glbf This is better, on the machine with the sometimes bootable (but not with FC2) CD-ROM this has got me going with a booted CD and install from CD-ROM iso's. For the other machine things are more complicated, I neglected to give some critical info. It's a laptop with either CD or floppy (not both) so a bootable floppy is only useful if a NFS install can be done (this has always worked before) but I can't see any info for using glbf for network bootstraps. It looks as if I'll have to make a custom kernel and initrd for my machine and NIC. Is it possible to build a smaller kernel that fits on a floppy? Any better ideas? > > -Ben > Dees Consulting > www.deesconsulting.com TIA Bill Somerville
