On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Michael Harris wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to put FC5 on a Gateway 9300 Laptop. It is about 5 years > old and still has plenty of life left in it, except: > snip > > On the plus side, I do have a working Win98 installation in one > partition and a working Redhat 9.0 release in another. I plan to scrub > the RH9 partition & load FC5 on it, but keep the windows one. > > I looked into using the 'smart boot manager' but found that it cannot > boot from USB devices. > > Is there any way to start the installation either from the Win98 side, > or from the RH 9.0 side, reading from the USB CDROM instead? > well, yes there is, I'm guessing that you have tried other options, so here is another one... copy these files to a directory under windows: ftp://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/pub/linux/loadlin-1.6/update-1.6c/loadlin.exe.gz http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/images/pxeboot/initrd.img http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz uncompress the loadlin.exe.gz file to loadlin.exe Then exit windows, booting into dos, and run this command in the same directory loadlin vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img Its been a while, so look at http://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/~lermen/manual.txt if there the above command gives an error ed
