Bob&Corinne writes:
I downloaded the iso image from the download site without a proglem. I created a bootable floppy (144mb) using format/s and added a config.sys and autoexec.bat file the config.sys has device=C:\oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 and the autoexec.bat has C:\mscdex /mscd001 When I burn the cd and then boot it, I get the message that the oakcdrom device loaded and that cdrom drives D and E designated 0 abd 1 were found and I can access them but only contains the following, BOOTCAT.BIN BOOTIMG.BIN When I type boot I get Bad Command or File Name I don't know what to do next.
I am presuming you're trying to boot some kind of a Fedora installer image off an LS-120 floppy drive.
This is not likely to work. BIOS emulation of an LS-120 device during boot is rather iffy.
In any case, you don't start the Fedora installer by booting into DOS first. There used to be a way to use loadlin to bootstrap the installer, but I don't think it is still possible (there certainly isn't an autoboot directory on the DVD image, there may still be one on the first CD image).
The preferred way to start the Fedora installer is by burning either the CD or the DVD images, then booting them. The downloaded CD/DVD .iso files are complete, "raw" images of the CDs or DVDs. You must select an option in your CD/DVD burning software to burn an "iso", or a raw image, rather than treating them as plain files.
The Fedora DVD (and the first CD image) also has a much smaller file images/boot.iso, which is also an iso image, that must be burned in the same manner. It is a much smaller image of the barebones installer only. If you have the complete Fedora install tree somewhere else on a local network, you can boot the smaller boot.iso and do a network install.
The third way is the images/diskboot.img file, which is a raw image of a small bootable FAT partition. On some hardware that can boot off a USB stick you could dump this image on the stick and boot off it. Again, you don't just copy it to the stick as a regular file. There's a DOS utility floating around, rawrite.exe, or something, that can be used to transfer raw FAT images into media.
Finally there's also a pair of files in images/pxeboot, which offer a fourth way to boot the installer; it's somewhat more involved and is mostly useful when you already have an existing Fedora system that you want to upgrade.
Those are your only options.
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