As the title says, I am trying to install Fedora Linux on a laptop. Unfortunately, the laptop has a weird CDROM drive that ONLY reads 650MB CDs. Fedora 5 CDs are OVER 650MB.

A few years ago when I installed Mandrake 9.0 on the same machine, there was a boot disk that I was able to make that booted a kernel from floppy and then gave me the option of installing Fedora from the USB drive.

I asked the folks in the Fedora part of linuxquestions.org and they refered me to Smart Boot Manager. Unfortunately, when I tried that boot disk, my USB CDROM drive was NOT one of the options.

Any suggestions? I figured Slack folks would have some great ideas!!

NO...installing Slack is NOT a valid solution...but thanks for your enthusiasm.

Please do not post the same thread in more than one forum. Picking the most relevant forum and posting it once there makes it easier for other members to help you and keeps the discussion all in one place.

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That's cool. I don't mind however, it is likely that if I posted in JUST the Fedora forum, that Slack people probably wouldn't see it and the opposite would also be likely. Just my