On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > colleague has a 4-YO (or so) "i" series thinkpad, on which the > cd-rom drive has gone south, but he'd still like to install FC3. the > system does have a USB floppy drive from which one can boot. so ... > what are his options? i realize there's no installation boot floppy > any more with FC. > > he mentioned that he's used an intelligent boot manager from > sourceforge (btmgr) but not in this context. i can certainly make > the FC3 ISO images available on the net, but how he gets to them is > the mystery. My recommendation is to swap the HDD into a different laptop - do the install (and get the updates esp - rhgb) - and swap back the HDD. This link was posted earlier on this list. http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~colohan/docs/fedora_upgrade.html Satish
