I'm willing to install the Fedora Core 3 on my laptop (Thinkpad R50) . I got the installation CDs from a friend which told me that the first CD can't be used to boot the system and kickoff the install.
Your friend may not have been able to boot from the first CD but that doesn't mean that *you* can't. It's *supposed* to work.
On the /readme of that CD it written that bootdisk.img can be used to bootstrap the installation from a USB stick. I tried the following from my aging Mandrake 9.2 distro. :
% dd if=/mnt/cdrom/image/bootdisk.img of=/dev/sda4
Where /dev/sda4 is my USB stick which is unmounted.
I '% reboot' the machine w/ my USB stick plugged, told the BIOS to boot from a HDD USB (which correctly detected my stick) and crossed my finger... -> Nothing, the system just displays "Missing operating system" and hangs..
Any idea ? How to bootstrap the installation from a USB stick ?
Try: $ dd if=/mnt/cdrom/image/bootdisk.img of=/dev/sda
Paul.
