How to make an install boot disk for Fedora?

[Neal Wilkinson]

My wife has agreed to go Fedora and so I want to get her machine up and
running. She has a CDROM that won't boot. On the FC3 install disk there
is a bootdisk.img file but it is not designed to be used on a floppy but
something larger. I have nothing larger. My machine doesn't have a
burner. I've also run across a command that you are supposed to be able
to use after a boot from a dos disk that is "loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz
initrd=autoboot\initrd.img but I don't see loadlin on the CD and nothing
called autoboot either, however, there is an initrd.img file. Also, the
place I found that said there would be a "dosutils" directory on the CD
and there isn't. Thanks for your help.

Neal

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 01.05.2005 schrieb Neal Wilkinson um 16:46:
> My wife has agreed to go Fedora and so I want to get her machine up and
> running. She has a CDROM that won't boot. On the FC3 install disk there
> is a bootdisk.img file but it is not designed to be used on a floppy but
> something larger. I have nothing larger. My machine doesn't have a
> burner. I've also run across a command that you are supposed to be able
> to use after a boot from a dos disk that is "loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz
> initrd=autoboot\initrd.img but I don't see loadlin on the CD and nothing
> called autoboot either, however, there is an initrd.img file. Also, the
> place I found that said there would be a "dosutils" directory on the CD
> and there isn't. Thanks for your help.
>
> Neal

Posted yesterday here on the list by Arthur Pemberton:
http://www.thisiscool.com/fc3floppy.htm

The rest of this topic has been covered many times. There are several
solutions explained (i.e. http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html). So
please have a look at the archive:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&w=2&r=1&s=fc3+floppy...

Alexander

[Neal Wilkinson]

On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 16:58 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Posted yesterday here on the list by Arthur Pemberton:
> http://www.thisiscool.com/fc3floppy.htm
>
> The rest of this topic has been covered many times. There are several
> solutions explained (i.e. http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html). So
> please have a look at the archive:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&w=2&r=1&s=fc3+floppy...
>
> Alexander

Yeah...well like a dumas I already fdisk'ed the windows drive. Looks
like I'll have to re-install windows to do it this way. With Mandrake it
was really easy. I guess the kernel was smaller.

[bruce]

neal...

what's the state of the current computer... what do you have, floppy,
harddrive? are you comfortable with being able to modify the grub/lilo conf
files? do you run lilo or grub on linux?

does the system have windows on the drive, or is the windows partition gone?

-bruce

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On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 16:58 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Posted yesterday here on the list by Arthur Pemberton:
> http://www.thisiscool.com/fc3floppy.htm
>
> The rest of this topic has been covered many times. There are several
> solutions explained (i.e. http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html). So
> please have a look at the archive:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&w=2&r=1&s=fc3+floppy...
>
> Alexander

Yeah...well like a dumas I already fdisk'ed the windows drive. Looks
like I'll have to re-install windows to do it this way. With Mandrake it
was really easy. I guess the kernel was smaller.

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[Neal Wilkinson]

On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 10:19 -0700, bruce wrote:
> neal...
>
> what's the state of the current computer... what do you have, floppy,
> harddrive? are you comfortable with being able to modify the grub/lilo conf
> files? do you run lilo or grub on linux?
>
> does the system have windows on the drive, or is the windows partition gone?
>
> -bruce

The one I'm installing to has been fdisk'ed. Has floppy (both) hard
drive, CD, haha I don't know which one I run? Which one installs by
default or how do I tell without rebooting? I feel like I'm running
windows if I reboot. As for modifying config files, I'll learn if I need
to do so.

[Arthur Pemberton]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am So, den 01.05.2005 schrieb Neal Wilkinson um 16:46:
> > My wife has agreed to go Fedora and so I want to get her machine up and
> > running. She has a CDROM that won't boot. On the FC3 install disk there
> > is a bootdisk.img file but it is not designed to be used on a floppy but
> > something larger. I have nothing larger. My machine doesn't have a
> > burner. I've also run across a command that you are supposed to be able
> > to use after a boot from a dos disk that is "loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz
> > initrd=autoboot\initrd.img but I don't see loadlin on the CD and nothing
> > called autoboot either, however, there is an initrd.img file. Also, the
> > place I found that said there would be a "dosutils" directory on the CD
> > and there isn't. Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Neal
>
> Posted yesterday here on the list by Arthur Pemberton:
> http://www.thisiscool.com/fc3floppy.htm

In all fairness the link was posted by Jim Lawrence :)

On a side note, when someone subscribes to the list, they should be 
recommended to take a look at sites like fedorafaq.org and fedoranews.org.
> The rest of this topic has been covered many times. There are several
> solutions explained (i.e. http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html). So
> please have a look at the archive:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&w=2&r=1&s=fc3+floppy...
>
> Alexander