How to boot from floppy to install Fedora 9 from CD?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Jun 22 06:57:22 UTC 2008
cjakeman wrote:
> Hi Les and Tom,
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> I've tried http://en.opensuse.org/Install_on_PC_that_can't_boot_from_CD [1] but couldn't make it load from the CD.
>
> Although 7 years old, the PC is 1.3GHz and 256MB so it should cope. However, I only want it to run a webserver, so perhaps I should go for a smaller distro.
>
There are other floppy boot loaders around that you could try, but I'd
recommend Centos 3.x as a better match for the machine. It should have
a floppy boot image and security/bugfix updates are still continuing.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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