F Core 3 probes

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Jan 15 05:21:10 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 20:59 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Michael Scottaline wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:41:32 -0500
> > "fly over" <fly_over at soon.com> insightfully noted:
> > 
> > FO>hi all,
> > FO>new to fedora core , having problem. I have 4 cd pack of fedora core 3.
> > FO>I'm trying to install but not booting from CD. i'hv already installed
> > FO>win 2003 server and XP. please tell me what ihv to do.
> > FO>
> > FO>thankx.
> > =============================
> > You likely just need to set your BIOS to boot from CDROM before moving on
> > to the HDD.  Try hitting the F2 key when the BIOS comes up, but before the
> > boot process kicks in.  You should be able to alter the boot sequence from
> > there.
> > HTH,
> > Mike
> > 
> 
> first, I apologize for hi-jacking, but this reminds me of something I've 
> been wondering about for a while now. Some time back RedHat moved away 
> from being able to make boot floppies to boot their installations. What 
> the heck did they do that for? I had a dickens of a time getting RH9 and 
> FC3 on my toshiba laptop because it has a USB CD/CDRW drive. I had to 
> get REAL creative to get it loaded.
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kernel no longer fits on a floppy disk

Craig




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