Boot Floppies V6

I thought I'd convert an old win2000 system to Fedora V6, I downloaded the CD-ISO's and burned them but I cannot find a Boot floppy creator or windows installer on them as the PC does not have the ability to boot from CD-ROM, only Floppy and HDD.

Help please as when I've installed linux in the past it's been easy to make a small set of floppies and then it would install of CD-Rom in much the same way as windows.

I really need help please, with big huggly, wuggles... ;-)

Samantha

[lostson]

On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:19:01 +0100
[e-mail] wrote:
> I thought I'd convert an old win2000 system to Fedora V6, I downloaded the CD-ISO's and burned them but I cannot find a Boot floppy creator or windows installer on them as the PC does not have the ability to boot from CD-ROM, only Floppy and HDD.
>
> Help please as when I've installed linux in the past it's been easy to make a small set of floppies and then it would install of CD-Rom in much the same way as windows.
>
> I really need help please, with big huggly, wuggles... ;-)
>
> Samantha
>
> --

Here is a project but it looks like it only covers to FC5

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

LostSon

http://www.lostsonsvault.org

[Martin Marques]

[e-mail] escribió:
> I thought I'd convert an old win2000 system to Fedora V6, I downloaded the CD-ISO's and burned them but I cannot find a Boot floppy creator or windows installer on them as the PC does not have the ability to boot from CD-ROM, only Floppy and HDD.

AFAIK, there hasn't been any more floppy bootable installer since Fedora 
Core 2. :-(

[James Wilkinson]

[e-mail] wrote:
> I thought I'd convert an old win2000 system to Fedora V6, I downloaded
> the CD-ISO's and burned them but I cannot find a Boot floppy creator
> or windows installer on them as the PC does not have the ability to
> boot from CD-ROM, only Floppy and HDD.

There are ways around that: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#floppyinstall
points to the Smart Boot Manager, which allows you to boot from floppy
and "chain-load" a bootable CD.

The Smart Boot Manager website appears to be down at the moment, but
there is a Sourceforge site.

Hope this helps,

James.

[Mikkel]

[e-mail] wrote:
> I thought I'd convert an old win2000 system to Fedora V6, I downloaded the CD-ISO's and burned them but I cannot find a Boot floppy creator or windows installer on them as the PC does not have the ability to boot from CD-ROM, only Floppy and HDD.
>
> Help please as when I've installed linux in the past it's been easy to make a small set of floppies and then it would install of CD-Rom in much the same way as windows.
>
> I really need help please, with big huggly, wuggles... ;-)
>
> Samantha

For problems like this, I like the oldbios boot disk. You can get it
from http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/bootdisk.htm - it lets you
boot from a CD/DVD when your BIOS does not support it. It also works
when you have more then one CD/DVD drive, and the BIOS will not boot
from a CD when you have more then one drive.

http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/bootdisk/oldbios.exe

Mikkel