Install Help

[Rick Stevens]

brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> I was going to install FC2 on a home computer and realized that 
> it doesn't come with the ability to boot from a diskett.  I can't 
> boot from the CD on this machine.  I tried to do it using an 
> older boot disk but for some reason the older probram will not 
> read the CD.

Can you boot off of a USB pendrive?  If so, the diskboot.img file can
be put on it using dd or rawrite and booted.

FC2 (and FC3) can't boot from floppy because the kernel is bigger than
a floppy can hold.
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