I will be using Fedora Core 3 at the months end but currently have Core 2 from Thompson Pub. with a Wells text I use. I have dual boot Red Hat 9.0 and Windows 200 Pro. I want instal the publishers copy) before I use it and cannot boot from the 1st CD (in a set of four). I know I'll need a small file maybe a floppy that I can start the install process from. The message I keep getting is the CD is not being found. Does anyone have a file I could use to get booted into Fedora Core 2.
Farkas, Roderic R. wrote:
I will be using Fedora Core 3 at the months end but currently have Core 2 from Thompson Pub. with a Wells text I use. I have dual boot Red Hat 9.0 and Windows 200 Pro. I want instal the publishers copy) before I use it and cannot boot from the 1st CD (in a set of four). I know I'll need a small file maybe a floppy that I can start the install process from. The message I keep getting is the CD is not being found. Does anyone have a file I could use to get booted into Fedora Core 2.
Are you planning on upgrading to FC3 at the end of the month? I ask this as FC4 will be out on June 06 if the dates stay the same.
I know that someone built a floopy install procedure that was used on some old computers around work for FC3. Rest of the install was done over a network or from CD.
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 10:38 am, Farkas, Roderic R. wrote:
I will be using Fedora Core 3 at the months end but currently have Core 2 from Thompson Pub. with a Wells text I use. I have dual boot Red Hat 9.0 and Windows 200 Pro. I want instal the publishers copy) before I use it and cannot boot from the 1st CD (in a set of four). I know I'll need a small file maybe a floppy that I can start the install process from. The message I keep getting is the CD is not being found. Does anyone have a file I could use to get booted into Fedora Core 2.
Check the list archives. There are a couple of messages on how to upgrade from earlier versions of RH/FC. They involve copying select files from the FC distro CD to your /boot partition, updating your boot loader, and booting into the installer from your hard drive. Note again, this only works for upgrade, not a clean install.
Rick Wagner wrote:
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 10:38 am, Farkas, Roderic R. wrote:
I will be using Fedora Core 3 at the months end but currently have Core 2 from Thompson Pub. with a Wells text I use. I have dual boot Red Hat 9.0 and Windows 200 Pro. I want instal the publishers copy) before I use it and cannot boot from the 1st CD (in a set of four). I know I'll need a small file maybe a floppy that I can start the install process from. The message I keep getting is the CD is not being found. Does anyone have a file I could use to get booted into Fedora Core 2.
Check the list archives. There are a couple of messages on how to upgrade from earlier versions of RH/FC. They involve copying select files from the FC distro CD to your /boot partition, updating your boot loader, and booting into the installer from your hard drive. Note again, this only works for upgrade, not a clean install.
You can also get something like Smart BootManager:
This is a media-agnostic boot program that fits on a floppy and will let you boot almost any media on your machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Is that a buffer overflow or are you just happy to see me? - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:38:57PM -0400, Farkas, Roderic R. wrote:
I will be using Fedora Core 3 at the months end but currently have Core 2 from Thompson Pub. with a Wells text I use. I have dual boot Red Hat 9.0 and Windows 200 Pro. I want instal the publishers copy) before I use it and cannot boot from the 1st CD (in a set of four). I know I'll need a small file maybe a floppy that I can start the install process from. The message I keep getting is the CD is not being found. Does anyone have a file I could use to get booted into Fedora Core 2.
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I am coonfused as usual. Can you open up the CD and look at its contentsr? If not this is a hardware failure. I can't see how you can install anything if the CD can't be found.
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