Re: Substitute for CD-ROM Boot Install

Fred Clearwater writes:

All:

I'm trying to install FC2 on an older system that does not support booting
from the CD-ROM (there is a CD-ROM that works for reads but not booting).  In
the past, I've been able to create a floppy boot disk to start the install
process and then continue from the CD-ROM drive to finish the install of
other Linux versions.  Apparently the floppy is not an option for FC2
according to what I've read due to kernel size.  I read that there was a way
to use a floppy to run grub to boot the system and then somehow access the
CD-ROM to run the installation routine.  I've got the system to boot up from
a floppy with grub and leave me at the grub prompt on the system.  I've tried
copying the vmlinuz file from the CD-ROM to the hard drive and run that from

I presume this is the vmlinuz images from images/pxeboot.

If so, you also need to boot using initrd.img from the same directory.
Something like this.

title Installer
       root (hd0,0)
       kernel /vmlinuz
       initrd /initrd.img

As the saying goes: your partitions may varyâ

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