Le jeu 09/09/2004 à 03:07, Lonnie Cumberland a écrit :
Hello All,
I am starting to get a small feel for the FC2 Linux os with many differences from my old Mandrake 10.0 distro and I must say that I like what I have seen so far. In as much, I will be re-formatting my machine to remove the MDK and put in the FC2 code.
I have seen that I can use a boot.iso burned onto a cdrom to install Fedora, but I was wondering what provisions were there for booting from a floppy and then installing over the net, NFS, hard drive, http, etc... ?
It's "easy" to install FC2. You need a way to load vmlinuz and initrd.img. These files are in /isolinux of CD1.
Most common options can be found in the same directory (isolinux.cfg and *.msg files). askmethod parameter provide the ability to install with NFS/FTP/HTTP and hard drive method.
For example, copy vmlinuz and initrd.img in the hard drive, then use a floppy with grub and load vmlinuz/initrd.img : title Fedore Core 3 _not_T2 (Install) root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz ramdisk_size=8192 askmethod initrd /initrd.img
You can use "Smart Boot Manager" http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3 : Booting from CD-ROM Smart BootManager supports booting from almost all kinds of IDE ATAPI CD-ROM
Seems that if FC2 only supports bootable CDROM systems then it would be hard to place on some older machines or did I miss something?
Thanks All and have a good day, Lonnie