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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