Install Help

brad.mugleston at comcast.net brad.mugleston at comcast.net
Wed Dec 22 23:22:54 UTC 2004


On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:

> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > I was going to install FC2 on a home computer and realized that 
> > it doesn't come with the ability to boot from a diskett.  I can't 
> > boot from the CD on this machine.  I tried to do it using an 
> > older boot disk but for some reason the older probram will not 
> > read the CD.
> 
> Can you boot off of a USB pendrive?  If so, the diskboot.img file can
> be put on it using dd or rawrite and booted.
> 
> FC2 (and FC3) can't boot from floppy because the kernel is bigger than
> a floppy can hold.

Don't know - don't have one 8^)  I saw that option I guess I'll 
have to figure something else out....

Thanks,

Brad





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