Install without CDROM or Network Boot
Ed K.
ed at hp.uab.edu
Sat Jul 8 06:58:37 UTC 2006
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Michael Harris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to put FC5 on a Gateway 9300 Laptop. It is about 5 years
> old and still has plenty of life left in it, except:
>
snip
>
> On the plus side, I do have a working Win98 installation in one
> partition and a working Redhat 9.0 release in another. I plan to scrub
> the RH9 partition & load FC5 on it, but keep the windows one.
>
> I looked into using the 'smart boot manager' but found that it cannot
> boot from USB devices.
>
> Is there any way to start the installation either from the Win98 side,
> or from the RH 9.0 side, reading from the USB CDROM instead?
>
well, yes there is, I'm guessing that you have tried other options, so
here is another one... copy these files to a directory under windows:
ftp://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/pub/linux/loadlin-1.6/update-1.6c/loadlin.exe.gz
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
uncompress the loadlin.exe.gz file to loadlin.exe
Then exit windows, booting into dos, and run this command in the same
directory
loadlin vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img
Its been a while, so look at
http://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/~lermen/manual.txt
if there the above command gives an error
ed
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