How to make an install boot disk for Fedora?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 01.05.2005 schrieb Neal Wilkinson um 16:46:

> My wife has agreed to go Fedora and so I want to get her machine up and
> running. She has a CDROM that won't boot. On the FC3 install disk there
> is a bootdisk.img file but it is not designed to be used on a floppy but
> something larger. I have nothing larger. My machine doesn't have a
> burner. I've also run across a command that you are supposed to be able
> to use after a boot from a dos disk that is "loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz
> initrd=autoboot\initrd.img but I don't see loadlin on the CD and nothing
> called autoboot either, however, there is an initrd.img file. Also, the
> place I found that said there would be a "dosutils" directory on the CD
> and there isn't. Thanks for your help.
> 
> Neal 

Posted yesterday here on the list by Arthur Pemberton:
http://www.thisiscool.com/fc3floppy.htm

The rest of this topic has been covered many times. There are several
solutions explained (i.e. http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html). So
please have a look at the archive:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&w=2&r=1&s=fc3+floppy&q=b

Alexander


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