[CALUG] Install From Running Old Version?

[Eldon Ziegler]

OK, the "Smart Boot Manager" (http://btmgr.webframe.org/) did the 
trick. It booted the install from the FC3 DVD.

Thanks
Eldon Ziegler

At 09:06 am 2/20/2006, Rajiv Gunja wrote:
>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>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>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
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>
>On 2/20/06, Eldon Ziegler 
><<mailto:eldonz39yid at yahoo.com>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 
>><<mailto:jason at dixongroup.net>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->http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/sn- 
>>
>>installing-from-harddrive.html
>>
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>>Jason Dixon
>>DixonGroup Consulting
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