Floppy install of FC3-T3

Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Mon Oct 18 15:29:45 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 14:08 +0200, Pierre-Yves Berger wrote:
> The option I choosed is Smart Boot Manager ( 
> http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html ). I used it to boot
> on a floppy and picked the CD for the rest of the boot. I used it to 
> install FC2 on older systems that could not boot directly on CD.
> 

Hey, thanks. I had missed that one, and I'll take a closer look.

For the record, the way I finally got things done over the weekend was:

	1. Install FC1 from the floppy and boot to it.

	2. Once inside the running FC1 system, copied the vmlinuz and initrd
files to /boot and added a GRUB stanza to boot from those.

	3. Booting to the FC3 vmlinuz/initrd brought up Anaconda so I was able
to continue the install from there using the CD as media.

I do note, however, that this did not allow me to choose text-mode for
the installer and went straight into graphical mode... on a PPro/200
with 64MB RAM, that means roughly a 3-hour install. <yuck>

Since I'm going to have to reinstall that system several more times,
I'll try the Smart Boot Manager as well. But out of curiosity, is there
any way I can use the GRUB trick above and get Anaconda to boot in text
mode?

Cheers,

-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
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