why not FC3 have dosutils directory?
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 17:22:36 UTC 2005
On Apr 5, 2005 9:21 AM, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> xthua wrote:
> > hi everyone: fedora-list-request
> > In our Univ,many people choose to install Fedora Core from harddisk,and need dosutils directory for boot installion. i'm puzzled with the disappearness of dosutils in the series after FC1.
> >
> > would anyone like to give some explaination?
>
> FC2 and FC3 are based on the 2.6 kernel, which will not conveniently fit
> on a floppy disk. So installation from floppy disk is no longer
> supported. Since the purpose of the dosutils utilities was to write the
> installer floppy disk images, there is no longer any point including them.
>
> The best way to install FC2 or FC3 will depend on the hardware you have,
> what is already installed on the computer (if anything), and what
> devices the computer can boot from.
>
> Paul.
>
Google produced this site: Fedora Core 3 floppy install,
http://www.thisiscool.com/fc3floppy.htm
I have not tried it. If it works let us know.
-- Kam
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