How to make an install boot disk for Fedora?

[Arthur Pemberton]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am So, den 01.05.2005 schrieb Neal Wilkinson um 16:46:
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>>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.
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>>Neal 
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>Posted yesterday here on the list by Arthur Pemberton:
>http://www.thisiscool.com/fc3floppy.htm
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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:
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>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&w=2&r=1&s=fc3+floppy&q=b
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>Alexander
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