Bootstrap with no bootable CD device

[Ben Smith]

Bill Somerville wrote:

>Hello
>
>I have Fedora Core 2 binary CD's.
>
>Disk 1 boots OK on another machine.
>
>I have a problem with two other machines.
>
>On one that boots other Linux distro CD's the FC2 disk 1 fails to boot
>with messages about "winging it" then "unable to find specs".
>
>On another the CD has never booted anything (no BIOS support I think).
>
>How do I proceed? I cannot find any docs on booting from floppy.
>
>I have copied the distro files to an nfs share on another machine - but
>still need some sort of bootstrap.
>
>TIA
>Bill Somerville
>
>  
>

On the one that gives errors, how much memory does it have?  The Fedora 
installer requires 64 megs.

On the other, there a few options.  I find these to be the easiest, as 
long as you can boot from a floppy:

Smart Boot Manager:   http://btmgr.webframe.org/
Generic Linux Boot Floppy:   http://www.deesconsulting.com/glbf


-Ben
Dees  Consulting
www.deesconsulting.com