The future of Diskette bootstraps
david
david at daku.org
Mon May 17 23:05:54 UTC 2004
At 02:55 PM 5/17/2004, you wrote:
>david wrote:
>
>>One of my systems does not support CD-ROM boostrap. FC1 provided a
>>bootstrap diskette which solved the problem, and let me install from the
>>network or from CDROM, both of which worked for me.
>>
>>Is this capability going to be maintained in future version of Fedora?
>>
>>If not, is there some option that would work?
>>
>>David Kurn
>
>I would presume that boot floppies should be around for a little while
>longer but floppies are too small to be used much longer.
>
>I have been noticing more and more computers being sold that don't come
>with floppy drives anymore. I'm not just talking about Mac's either. We
>have a bunch of little machines we use for single purpose servers, and
>they don't come with a floppy or CD, so we hookup a CD to get the install
>started and do a network install.
>
>Good luck.
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I got several responses to this (you guys are great), but maybe I have to
refine the problem space better.
Dell Workstation 400 MT, which I use as my crash-and-burn test machine.
Pentium II 300, yah ... old machine
No USB
No Network boot (as far as I know)
I've seen only hard-disk or diskette boot. And with these constraints,
I've been able to load up W2k, Windoze XP and Fedora Core 1, because each
of them has a diskette bootstrap method.
It seems to me that what's needed is a relatively simple and OS-independent
diskette which takes the diskette bootstrap, and turns it into a CDROM
bootstrap.
Or, rescue the hard-drive and toss the computer?
David
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