How to install FC3 w/o cdrom or usb
Ow Mun Heng
Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Wed Nov 17 07:23:24 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 12:18, Adam Mercer wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:39:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram
> <rahulsundaram at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > > The minimal boot image is now 5Mb so floppy seems to be out.
> > > Some way to envoke a network install would be nice.
> > >
> > > steve
> >
> > you can probably use a usb disk if thats available
>
> As the subject say, the OP doesn't have usb available.
>
> Smart Boot Manager might be worth a look
>
> http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html
[snip from another mail list]
Go to ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-current/isolinux/sbootmgr/ and
download the file named sbootmgr.dsk
It's a bootmanager. dd it to a blank floppy using the command
dd if=sbootmgr.dsk of=/dev/fd0
Boot your machine using the floppy. You will have an option to start
the machine from CDROM drive. Put your CD in the CDROM drive, select
the drive, press Enter if I'm not mistaken, and your machine should
start from the CDROM drive.
Either that or PXE boot if you can boot from network
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