FC2 Bootable Disk

[Younis, Mohanad K.]

Dear All, 
I have already successfully installed FC1 before six month ago on my laptop. Actually I
need 
to upgrade my release to FC2 but unfortuanatly I don't have a bootable CD-DRIVE
"i.e system 
can't see the CD-ROM Drive while booting", and my laptop also doesn't support
the booting 
from an USB drive. The only way i have is to boot using a floppy BUT also it seems that
FC2 
remove the option of make a boot from floppy drive....PLEASE HELP 
 
Regards 
Mohanad K. Younis

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 25.05.2004 schrieb Younis, Mohanad K. um 10:17:

>  I have already successfully installed FC1 before six month ago on my
> laptop. Actually I need 
>  to upgrade my release to FC2 but unfortuanatly I don't have a bootable CD-DRIVE
> "i.e system 
>  can't see the CD-ROM Drive while booting", and my laptop also doesn't
> support the booting 
>  from an USB drive. The only way i have is to boot using a floppy BUT also it seems that
> FC2 
>  remove the option of make a boot from floppy drive....PLEASE HELP  
>  Mohanad K. Younis  
You know that the install method from a harddrive partition was
explained here already several times? Please search the list archive.

Alexander


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[Sean]

On Tue, 25 May 2004 14:26:55 +0200
Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz(a)uni-bielefeld.de&gt; wrote:

>  Am Di, den 25.05.2004 schrieb Younis, Mohanad K. um 10:17:
>  
>  > I have already successfully installed FC1 before six month ago on my laptop.
> Actually I need 
>  > to upgrade my release to FC2 but unfortuanatly I don't have a bootable CD-DRIVE
> "i.e system 
>  > can't see the CD-ROM Drive while booting", and my laptop also doesn't
> support the booting 
>  > from an USB drive. The only way i have is to boot using a floppy BUT also it seems
> that FC2 
>  > remove the option of make a boot from floppy drive....PLEASE HELP 
>  
>  > Mohanad K. Younis 
>  
>  You know that the install method from a harddrive partition was
>  explained here already several times? Please search the list archive. 
Alexander,

I've tried four or five quick searches and didn't get anything back 
related to this issue.    What search terms would you suggest to find 
helpful information about this problem in the archives? 

Other solutions in the archives about using a floppy disk that has a 
bootmanager that knows how to chainboot the cdrom on older 
hardware and another about using freedos with a cdrom driver didn't
show up under any searches either.

Cheers,
Sean

[Phil Schaffner]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:13, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
...snip...
>  
>  Alexander,
>  
>  I've tried four or five quick searches and didn't get anything back 
>  related to this issue.    What search terms would you suggest to find 
>  helpful information about this problem in the archives? 
>  
>  Other solutions in the archives about using a floppy disk that has a 
>  bootmanager that knows how to chainboot the cdrom on older 
>  hardware and another about using freedos with a cdrom driver didn't
>  show up under any searches either.
>  
>  Cheers,
>  Sean 
Not Alexander, but try one of these:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=107329988021060&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=108026306807162&w=2

Phil

NIS Master/Slave

[Tiziana Manfroni]

I have configured a NIS Master and a NIS Slave with Fedora2.
When I exec ypxfr on master (by cron) I have an error:

ypxfr: cant' get master address

In ypserver, hosts files there is master address and ypwhich show me
master address.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance

	Tiziana

NIS Master/Slave

[Tom Mitchell]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 03:44:26PM +0200, Tiziana Manfroni wrote:
>  
>  I have configured a NIS Master and a NIS Slave with Fedora2.
>  When I exec ypxfr on master (by cron) I have an error:
>  
>  ypxfr: cant' get master address
>  
>  In ypserver, hosts files there is master address and ypwhich show me
>  master address.
>  
>  Any idea? 
You may be seeing a chicken or the egg problem with the NIS Slave
server.  Make sure that it knows or can discover the IP address of the
master.

Commonly the master is famous and known in /etc/hosts.  In some cases
DNS can be used as long as the IP address for the DNS server is
correctly configured (some server host needs to be famous).  Mostly I
suspect you want hosts to be resolved with DNS while user ID and GIDs
and other maps are NIS.  Make sure that DNS and NIS do not have
differences in this regard.

Things can get tangled when dynamic IP addresses are used because
DHCP will fiddle with host name resolver setups.  Double check this...

You might have to set ypmaster of the slave to the master then
reinitialize the slave so the slave can populate the cached maps.
This can happen if the master moves or something else strange was
done.  Once the slave latches on to bad data things need to be cleaned
up.

Some NIS stuff bootstraps with a broadcast so make sure that broadcast
masks for the addresses/ networks are correct and packets can be seen
(routers/ bridges).

It is valuable to have two yp servers on each subnet.

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