Problems with attempting to install Fedora Core 3

[Pat Pleate]

To all:

  I have found the reason why the CD was not bootable
- an IDE controller may have had a bad wire and was
replaced.  The new IDE controller is now allowing the
CD-ROM to be seen at POST (to which I didn't see
previously and did not mention, since I saw that the
CD  device was mentioned in the BIOS and the CD could
be accessed in Windows.  It didn't dawn on me at that
time).  It appears that an IDE controller wire that is
used for detection was bad or malfunctioning.

  Sorry that it was a hardware problem and that I used
up some bandwidth for this and may have wasted some of
your time.  Thanks for the responses, though.

  If I ever have time to play with the suggestion
mentioned below, I'll pass on the information.

  Thanks again.

--- "Ed K." <ed at hp.uab.edu> wrote:

> 
> 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}
> 
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