Floppy boot install of Fedora for CD install via USB Sony DVD DRX-500ULX?

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Mark G. Spencer wrote:

>Answering some of my question .. I tried bootdisk.img off FC1 CD1, and I got the following boot messages with my Sony DVD DRX-500ULX attached via USB:
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>hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 2
>usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x54c/0xee) is not claimed by any active driver.
>crc error<6>Freeing initrd memory: 533k freed
>VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 48:03
>Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 48:03
>
>Does this mean I may be out of luck?  I looked for a bootdisk named "usbdrive.img" on FC1 CD1, but don't see anything like it, just the PCMCIA bootdisk which I don't think is applicable to a USB DVD drive?
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>

perhaps something like
"linux expert"

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shrek-m