Boot floppy image for Fedora Core 2

wit · 07-26-2004, 02:39 PM

so it boots everything except Fedora?

tho · 07-26-2004, 06:08 PM

yup fedora1&2 slackware10 now. I just downloaded slackware, it would not boot from the cds. I'm seeing a pattern here. More like the newer version of linux diastro.

Redhat 9 and Mandrake 8.1, XP, WIN3003 server all booted ok.

Please advice. Thanks

wit · 07-26-2004, 07:01 PM

maybe some kind of encoding your drive cant read? are all the Linux distros on the same type of cd?

tho · 07-26-2004, 07:04 PM

Yup. They are all on the same type of cds-

You reckon i should get new type of cdr and try burning again?

boyzonder · 08-21-2004, 02:17 PM

I've recently started an attempt at creating Fedora boot floppies. You can find a working set of boot disks for Fedora Core 2 FTP install at http://fedoraboot.no-ip.org/. Hopefully more will follow.

wit · 08-22-2004, 04:59 PM

yay! now we need 'em for the cd install

msturtz · 09-26-2004, 11:10 PM

Hi all--

I actually have had success modifying boot floopies for previous versions (circa RedHat 6.2) to add drivers, but the layout is exactly the same now.

I'm trying to install FC2 on a box that will _not_ boot from CD (really old P-75-- even need to use EZBIOS to make it understand a 10G drive).

I took apart the 'diskboot.img' and pruned it down as much as I could. I removed all eth, scsi, and raid drivers, and anything to do with pcmcia... I ripped out everything I could, but I just couldn't make it all fit. The 2.6 kernel is just too big (1.2M). Even by totally removing _all_ drivers (ie rm modules/*), I was still 200k short.

So, if working with a machine which won't boot the CD, the answer seems to be a generic FC1 install, then copy the 'isolinux' directory from the FC2 disc 1 into /boot, and modify /boot/grub/grub.conf to give you that option. Reboot, and select it, and it'll work...

The question really becomes if this will ever be possible again... I would think that, by pearing down the kernel itself and modulizing _EVERYTHING_, it could be done as a two-floppy boot. But I'm not enough of a guru to make that happen... All that being said, I suspect the number of systems out there that this will break is dwindling rapidly. Which is a pitty, because Linux runs really well on this old hardware, long as you're not in a hurry.

-Matt-

membar · 01-03-2005, 09:25 PM

Hi People,

Check out my following page, which is a solution for FC3. This approach works with all install methods (Local CDROM, FTP, HTTP, NFS, etc.) and should apply to FC2 too:

http://www.thisiscool.com/fc3floppy.htm