I have a question about doing a serious change of computer. Basicly, I want to install fedora on a hard drive, then put that hard drive into a very old computer (p133 w/ 24mb, and I also want to do a p100 w/ 32mb). I am doing this because the two computers do not support booting from cd rom, and both have very flaky floppy drives. I tried installing, and I recall (this was a while ago) that grub appeared, but the computer just rebooted. Is there something I can do before I remove the computer from where it was installed to get it to work?

Thanks in advance,
SirNuke

I wonder is 24 mb is enough to install fedora. Don't install KDE or GNOME with such limited resouces.

A floppy drive is considered a disposable component. It can be replaced inexpensively. If the keyboard were to wear out you'ld replace it. The same goes for a floppy drive. ( Or replace it temporarily during the install )

The setup program will need to examine the hardware to install properly, so unless you have an identical machine to perform an install on before moving the hard drive, I wouldn't try it that way.

Is there any other way? Its not just a bad floppy, but the computers do not like booting from Linux formated floppys. Btw, it doesn't have to be fedora, I am going to use the computers as minor web servers (very low traffic)

With a working floppy drive, they shouldn't have a problem loading the boot floppy. The only other way of installing would be if the bios can load an operating system from the network. Setting this up would be a lot more work and just installing a new floppy drive. Replacement floppy drives are very cheap.

I don't believe that a 24 meg computer will be able to run a web server.

I could see using it as a gateway computer.

Alright, forget the 24mb computer. It was otherwise serving as a router (I used coyote, but put it on a hard drive). The 24mb computer's floppy connection on the mb is dead, alright. The 32mb one is very picky about the floppy format, and will not read from a linux floppy (but will boot from the same coyote hd from above, strange). I am quite sure I cannot do a floppy or cd-rom boot up. Now that I think about it, I wonder if I can do a PXE network boot. The bios does have an entry for network boot. As for web server, the 24mb was running a very small web server fast enough (this will be for a 3 computer network, and will never have more than one or two people on it at a time)