Need FC5 Installation Boot Floppy

tubatodd · 05-28-2006, 02:25 PM

Hey!

I'm a Slackware user who is about to RETURN to Fedora after a long time apart (last time I used Fedora was FC1). Unfortunately, the stupid CD Rom drive on my laptop only reads CDs up to 650MB (hey....it was a free laptop). Well, previously when I needed to install Linux from a larger CD I put in a boot floppy and used my USB CDR drive and everything went swimmingly.

Does anyone know where I can get a boot disk that will aid me....OR know where I can download Fedora on SMALLER CDs?

Thanks!

Lenard · 05-28-2006, 02:31 PM

Sorry, FC5 does not have a boot floppy (the kernel is to large) nor are any "smaller CDs" available. But this may resolve the problem;

http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm

I'm a bit surprised at you being a Slackware user not knowing about this boot floppy.

tubatodd · 06-01-2006, 08:40 PM

Well, I tried the Smart Boot Manager floppy disk. In the menu I found floppy, hard drive and cdrom drive. There was no option for USB or USB CDRom...which I need.

When I ran Mandrake 9.0 there was a floppy disk I was able to make on another PC. The floppy disk allowed me to boot a kernel which allowed me to install Mandrake from one of a couple different sources....one of which was my USB CDRom drive.

Yes, I checked my BIOS. There is no option for booting from USB.

Any ideas?

liquidtenmilion · 06-01-2006, 09:33 PM

Hmm...

Fedora SHOULD-as in, I actually remember downloading and using it- provide a smaller cdrom(less than 50MB) that you can boot up with and then do an FTP install, which will download and install the packages from the internet instead of installing them off of the cd rom.

Infact, this is the iso right here.

ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/...mages/boot.iso

Also, here is where I answered a similar question. Just replace "2" with "5" to install fedora core 5 instead of 2.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=187123

This does require a working net connection though.

tubatodd · 06-01-2006, 09:50 PM

Thanks for the suggestion, but the network connection won't be possible. I still haven't given up hope on finding a boot disk that will allow me to select a USB device as a boot drive. There HAS TO be one.

tubatodd · 06-02-2006, 12:59 PM

OK, now I did NOT find a boot floppy however, I used the boot.iso from the /image folder of the Fedora 5 CD and since the CD was small enough it booted on the laptop. I was able to tell Anaconda to use my USB CDROM drive for the installation. It worked.