The future of Diskette bootstraps
Ed K.
ed at hp.uab.edu
Mon May 17 18:58:14 UTC 2004
On Mon, 17 May 2004, david wrote:
> One of my systems does not support CD-ROM boostrap. FC1 provided a
> bootstrap diskette which solved the problem, and let me install from the
> network or from CDROM, both of which worked for me.
>
> Is this capability going to be maintained in future version of Fedora?
>
> If not, is there some option that would work?
>
> David Kurn
I've had the same problem. Some of my computers do not even have cdroms in them. So,
I created a network aware grub boot floppy. It can load the kernel and initial ramdisk
from a tftp server.
http://www.hp.uab.edu/~ed/grub-net
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