Request to FC2 Developers: need floppy to network install

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed May 19 03:29:33 UTC 2004


Once upon a time, david <david at daku.org> said:
> I and others on the list have asked for help because of no floppy bootstrap 
> install capability for installing FC2.
> 
> Numerous alternatives have been suggested, but they have failed for 
> me.  Rejected alternatives include:

You missed my suggestion: boot FreeDOS with a generic ATAPI CD-ROM
driver (or appropriate SCSI drivers) and then use loadlin to boot.  That
should work (assuming loadlin can load current kernels/initrds; I
haven't tried it in a long time).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.





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