How to install FC3 w/o cdrom or usb

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Tue Nov 16 13:04:17 UTC 2004


steve_dum at mentorg.com wrote:

> I am trying to install FC3 on a Toshiba Portege 7020CT Laptop.
> It has a pcmcia cdrom and the boot disks don't boot off the cdrom.
> Is there a way to bootstrap the boot process to be able to install
> FC3?  It doesn't support booting off the usb either.
> 
> The minimal boot image is now 5Mb so floppy seems to be out.
> Some way to envoke a network install would be nice.

Do you have a method of transferring data to your laptop, eg WiFi,
and enough space on the laptop for the 4 iso images (about 3GB)?
If so, installation from the hard disk is the simplest way, I think.

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