[CALUG] Install From Running Old Version?

[Rajiv Gunja]

Since its been a long time since I installed fedora on a physical PC (mostly
VMware), I have not done this. However, here are some of the links I found
which might help you move forward.

>From what I read, with the new kernel 2.6, floppy install is not possible,
at least with Fedora. (link 1). But there are other websites which provide a
work around for this issue. (link 3 and 4)

01. http://www.fedorafaq.org/#floppyinstall
02. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=169466&rl=1
03.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2004-August/msg00031.html
04. http://www.thisiscool.com/fcfloppy.htm

Hope this helps. Have fun.

-GGR

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Rajiv G Gunja
System Analyst / Engg
SUN / AIX / HPUX / Linux Admin
IM: AOL / Yahoo / MSN : ggvrsn


On 2/20/06, Eldon Ziegler <eldonz39yid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I haven't been able to get "askmethod" to work when I boot from a floppy.
> I enter "linux askmethod" at "boot:" (right?) but it goes right into booting
> the old system from the hard drive instead of displaying the menus. I used
> mkbootdisk on the floppy.
>
>
> At 10:23 pm 2/19/2006, Rajiv Gunja wrote:
>
> If it has a floppy drive, you can always create boot floppies from the
> CDROM and start installation from there. I too have a HP dual CPU Kayak at
> office, 500 MHz P-III, it wont boot from CDROM either, so I got the
> installation going using a boot floppy. Once stage 1, 1.5 and 2 is loaded
> and the initrd image is uncompressed into the memory, it will have the
> loadable modules for CDROM, at which stage, you can start the install as
> normal.
>
> Hope this helps too.
>
> -GGR
>
> ---
> Rajiv G Gunja
> System Analyst / Engg
> SUN / AIX / HPUX / Linux Admin
> IM: AOL / Yahoo / MSN : ggvrsn
>
>
> On 2/19/06, *Jason Dixon* <jason at dixongroup.net> wrote:
>  On Feb 19, 2006, at 6:28 PM, Eldon Ziegler wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to install Fedora Core 3 on a machine that won't boot from
> > either the CDROM or DVD drives. It has Linux 6.2 running. Is there a
> > way to start the install from the running Linux?
>
>  http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/sn-
> installing-from-harddrive.html
>
>
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