Request to FC2 Developers: need floppy to network install

[david]

MUCH MUCH THANKS

This is the best formulated advice I've seen, and is something I will work 
through.

Thanks


At 03:42 PM 5/18/2004, you wrote:
> >>>>> "d" == david  <david at daku.org> writes:
>
>d> I and others on the list have asked for help because of no floppy
>d> bootstrap install capability for installing FC2.
>
>The bottom line is that the kernel no longer fits on a floppy.  So you
>absolutely have to get the kernel from somewhere else.  You've said
>that USB and CD are out.  That leaves network and hard disk.
>
>If you have an existing Red Hat/Fedora installation, you can just
>stick the initrd and vmlinuz from the FC2 isolinux directory in /boot,
>edit grub.conf and reboot:
>
>title Reinstall
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-fc2 ramdisk_size=9216
>         initrd /initrd-fc2
>
>No existing installation?  You could do a minimal install of an older
>version.  Or install grub onto a floppy and use the network install
>functionality.  Yes, you must have a TFTP server elsewhere on the
>network.  It's not hard to install and configure.  Assuming you have
>another Fedora machine, just install the tftp-server package,
>"chkconfig tftp on", and stick your initrd and vmlinuz in /tftpboot.
>Then investigate the network booting section of the Grub manual;
>basically it's just
>
>ifconfig --address=X.X.X.X --server=Y.Y.Y.Y
>
>using the address of the machine you're installing and the TFTP
>server, respectively.  Then it's just
>
>root (nd)
>kernel /vmlinux-fc2 ramdisk_size=9216
>initrd /initrd-fc2
>boot
>
>You may have to tweak those paths.
>
>d> 4)  Use tftp - gosh ... I wouldn't even know where to start for
>d>     that.
>
>It's not exactly difficult.  You said you have a server to do an FTP
>install, and setting up a TFTP server is way simpler than an FTP
>server.
>
>Perhaps I just wasted my time, and what you really want isn't help to
>make it work but for someone to magically make floppy booting work
>again.  I can't help there.
>
>  - J<
>
>
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