On 5/4/05, Daniel Whalen <beeker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am having problems installing Fedora Core 3 on an old system I had laying > around that I wanted to turn into a print server. > > The computer in question is an old NEC Pentium MMX 266, and the problem I am > running into is that it just won't seem to boot from the CD Rom drive > (adjusted it in the bios), instead it seems to skip over my Fedora disc > entirely. > > I did a little bit of looking and found a program that was supposed to allow > me to boot from a CD via my floppy drive called smart boot manager > http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3?body=about.html but it just gave me a > "non system disk" error when I started up with it in the floppy drive. > > I think that because of the age of the system, it just does not support > booting from CD rom (despite what the BIOS may indicate), and hopefully > somebody here can point me in the direction of a program that will get the > boot started from my floppy drive. > > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide! > > Daniel Whalen > beeker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 303.664.9976 > Obligatory list question: Is your FC3-1 CD bootable on another system? If the answer is no, then your CDs were not burned properly. You need to burn the CD as an image.
