No Bootable CDROM nor USB

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sat Mar 25 15:34:20 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 12:19 +1100, Ben Stringer wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 18:19 -0500, chalonec wrote:
> > Is there a way to create a bootable floppy to install FC5?
> > 
> 
> The installation guide says no.
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc5/sn-preparing-media.html
> 
> If you are stuck, an option is to remove the harddrive, place it in
> another PC that does have a CDrom, and install using the host PC, then
> return the harddrive to the original machine.

Or, if you're upgrading a machine that already has an older Fedora on,
you could add the kernel and initrd from the installer to your grub
configuration and boot the installer from your hard disk.

Paul.




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