Floppy install of FC3-T3

[Pierre-Yves Berger]

On 16 oct. 04, at 01:22, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I *do* realize that there are several ways to boot from a floppy when
> you need to install a machine which is old, has floppy and CD-ROM, but
> will not boot from said CD-ROM.
>
> However, I am honestly finding the options rather confusing; and this
> weekend I hoped to use an old box I just acquired to begin testing my
> "minimal" install of FC3-T3 so I can rewrite my HOWTO's and submit some
> suggestions to Bugzilla.
>
> Would anyone be so kind as to point me to the right docs for the
> simplest or easiest way to boot the install from floppy? I'm trying to
> install FC3-T3 on a PPro-200 with 64MB RAM, a 2GB disk, a CD-ROM, a
> floppy, and a 3Com network card. I do have another Linux server on the
> network with FTP/HTTP servers... I do not yet know how to use NFS.
>
> Thanks for any advice... I promise it will be used to test FC3.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- 
> Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
> -- 

Hello,

The option I choosed is Smart Boot Manager ( 
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html ). I used it to boot
on a floppy and picked the CD for the rest of the boot. I used it to 
install FC2 on older systems
that could not boot directly on CD.

Regards,
Pierre-Yves Berger