[wellylug] Fedora

[Ian Sterling]

Me again.  I found this and a lot of other good stuff using the
following google query, in case you're interested:

"fedora core 3 installation floppy boot image"

--Ian...

On 4/19/05, Ian Sterling <xyverz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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