[wellylug] Fedora
Ian Sterling
xyverz at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 10:25:47 NZST 2005
Oh, looks like I stand corrected. There's a 3rd-party floppy
installer for FC3, which will do a network install. It appears to be
several floppy images in a tarball that you can write. Here's the
link:
http://www.thisiscool.com/fc3floppy.htm
--Ian...
On 4/19/05, Ian Sterling <xyverz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/18/05, Bill Christiansen <bill.christiansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the advice, I think my package database may have been
> > temporarally corrupted as the terminal I was running the rpm command
> > in was hanging but it's OK again now. I got one new toy today a usb to
> > IDE adaptor which means I can now plug a dvdrom drive into my laptop.
> > I'm just waiting for an FC3 dvd I bought on trademe to arive. I'll
> > need to kick off the install with a floppy disk as this old laptop
> > can't boot usb devices.
>
> Lots of luck. Last time I checked, there were no FCx floppy boot
> images. Somebody may have made a 3rd-party boot floppy for FC3, but I
> haven't heard anything about it. True, I haven't looked since I did a
> net floppy install of debian on my lappie, but still... I believe it's
> one of the questions covered on the fedorafaq.org question sheet.
>
> --Ian...
>
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