Booting the installation of Fedora Core 2

[Tim Holmes]

Ok, after doing some checking this is what I have found.

1. The system that I am using will not support USB booting - its an older server that has a bios date of 1998.  dual processor Pentium 3 400.  Tons of drive space.
2. the first time I tried to do the installation it booted from the CD-Rom image that I have created, and got as far as trying to install the SCSI driver for the disks, and then stalled.  When I tried to restart it, it refuses to boot from the same CD Rom 
3. I downloaded the SmartBoot Manger, created a ms dos boot disk, booted the machine from the disk, and then tried to execute the smartboot manager program, and it said it was missing some sort of file.  I guess I'm not too good at this stuff yet. 
4. I'm not sure how to proceed from here.  Any help would be greatly appreciated

Tim Holmes
 
IT Manager
Medina Christian Academy, Inc.
A Higher Standard...
 
Jeremiah 33:3
Jeremiah 29:11
Esther 4:14


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tim Holmes
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 6:02 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: RE: Help needed

For some stupid reason, it booted from the CD the first time, and then hung, and refuses to boot from the CD again, as for the USB key, I don't know, Ive never tried, and Im not sure how would go about setting that up

Tim Holmes
 
IT Manager
Medina Christian Academy, Inc.
A Higher Standard...
 
Jeremiah 33:3
Jeremiah 29:11
Esther 4:14


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 5:49 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Help needed

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 22:45, Tim Holmes wrote:
> Hello, I need some help installing FC2
> 
> I downloaded the images from the website, and I am now trying to
> create the Boot Floppy needed to start the installation, but I cannot
> find instructions anywhere to be able to do this, can someone please
> assist me.

There is no boot floppy install method for FC2:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#floppyinstall

Can you not boot from CD or a USB key?

Paul.
-- 
Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>

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