Re: Boot pelo disquete para instalação do Fedora 4

Fábio Augusto fabiomirmar at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 18:13:27 UTC 2006


Hi Mikkel,

Thanks a lot by the answer... I didn't explain very well... I don't have the
CD Driver, that's the big problem...

I'm going to install fedora in a lab with many computers, but I have just
one CD Reader...

Thanks again,

2006/1/24, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
>
> Fábio Augusto wrote:
> > Good Afternoon for all,
> >
> > I have an equipment without CD ROM driver and USB boot support. I would
> > like to know how can I boot from a floppy disk (if it's possible) to
> > start installation via NFS Server.
> >
> > In some older version (like Fedora 1) we could download the boot.img and
> > use dd to convert it to the floppy disk, but now I can't find it
> anymore.
> >
> One way would be to download
> http://ebcd.pcministry.com/download/oldbios.exe
>
> This will create a boot floppy that ends up booting from a CD.
> When you boot with the floppy, and have a bootable CD in the drive,
> it acts the same as if your BIOS supported booting from CD. I have
> also used it when the BIOS couldn't figure out how to boot from CD
> when the system had more then one CD-ROM drive...
>
> If you have a problem running the /exe, let me know and I will send
> you an image file that works with dd.
>
> Mikkel
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