Floppy Install

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

    Wait, wait, wait...before you start bashing this dead horse 
again...  Let me explain.  I'm in a bind with a few machines needing to 
be upgraded to FC4.  The machines do not have a CD drive.  They also do 
not have USB on them.  And to top it off, they're all stuck in a rack 
where it's going to be a major pain in the rear to get out.  And I can't 
use PXE because the NICs in the machines don't support it.  So, I went 
hunting and google came up with this web site:

    http://www.thisiscool.com/fcfloppy.htm

    Great!  Except...it doesn't work.  It loads all the floppies just 
fine and goes through to where it wants to load anaconda and then it 
barfs with 'Less than 4MB of memory.  System halted'  And I'm dead in 
the water again.  These machines have 512MB in them.

    All I need is to boot the machine up to where I can start the 
installer and pull the ISOs across NFS.  Other than the above option, 
does anyone have any other suggestions and/or tricks up their sleeves?  
And please don't say 'pull the machines out and rip them open.'  That 
would be the utmost last option right now.  There's got to be something 
else somewhere.  I honestly don't want to pull each and everyone of them 
out, rip them open to connect a CD drive, install the OS, then take the 
drive off and stick it back in the rack, only to repeat it again for the 
next one.  Lather, rinse, repeat.  I have to believe that somewhere 
someone made a floppy based bootstrap that works.  And I'm hoping 
someone here can tell me where I can find that.

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