installing Fedora on a machine with no CD or floppy

coontie · 02-02-2005, 04:49 PM

Hi, all. I've a box that has a floppy drive removed to accomodate another HD and the power for the HD is taken from the CDROM. As a result, there's neither. It runs windows and I need to install FC3 on it somehow. Any ideas? It support PXE boot (whatever that is).. can that be used?

Or should I just put the power back to the cd, install FC3 and then "add" the drive back to FC3? Seems like a pain...

TIA!

secesh · 02-02-2005, 04:55 PM

buy a new powersupply with more connections, and duct-tape the secondary HD to the primary so you can put the floppy back in?

--i hate small cases--

(more seriously, can you leave the cd powered long enough to finish an install on one volume? and then pray you never have need for use of a boot disk...)

coontie · 02-02-2005, 05:32 PM

yea, I don't feel like popping the case. I need a way to do hands-off NETWORK install.

archdev · 02-02-2005, 05:45 PM

I would suggest floppy boot and network install but on FC3 read http://www.fedorafaq.org/#floppyinstall

coontie · 02-02-2005, 05:56 PM

Thanks, man! USB drive is an option.. I gotta see if the machine supports it.. If not... I gotta BOOT across the network somehow...