how to install on thinkpad with *no* CD-ROM drive
Ben Smith
fedora-list at deesconsulting.com
Thu Nov 25 00:47:30 UTC 2004
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> colleague has a 4-YO (or so) "i" series thinkpad, on which the
> cd-rom drive has gone south, but he'd still like to install FC3. the
> system does have a USB floppy drive from which one can boot. so ...
> what are his options? i realize there's no installation boot floppy
> any more with FC.
>
> he mentioned that he's used an intelligent boot manager from
> sourceforge (btmgr) but not in this context. i can certainly make
> the FC3 ISO images available on the net, but how he gets to them is
> the mystery.
>
> thoughts?
>
> rday
>
Aside from the grub option already mentioned, this floppy can be used to
boot from .iso images on vfat/ext partitions:
ftp://www.deesconsulting.com/glbf
http://www.deesconsulting.com/glbf
-Ben Smith
Dees Consulting
www.deesconsulting.com
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