Problems with attempting to install Fedora Core 3

[Ed K.]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:20:06PM -0800, Pat Pleate wrote:
>> 1. Even though BIOS indicates CD-ROM device is the first bootable device,
>> I can't boot from Disk 1 of FC3. 2. Attempted to boot from RH9 bootable
>> floppy and install FC3 from CD (which can be "seen"), can't do it. 3. FC3
>> does NOT have the \DOSUTILS dir on the CD, unlike FC1 did, therefore, can
>> NOT make a FC3 boot diskette. 4. Found FC1, \DOSUTILS on FC1 and created a
>> boot diskette from that. I can boot but can not install FC3 - indicates
>> the wrong core.
>
> Unfortuantely, the install image is now too big to fit on a floppy, so
> that's a dead-end route.
>

All true, but you can use the existing installation of grub to boot the 
installation kernel and initial ramdisk. copy the kernel and initrd files 
from the pxe directory to you boot directory and edit your grub.conf file 
to something like:

title FC3 install
         root (hd0,0)
         kernel /{kernel filename}
         initrd /{initrd filename}