Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core 2 Install from HD Problem

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Sep 02 2004 - 11:50:07 EDT


Sorry for piggybacking, but I don't have the original email any more.

> Background:
> I have a very old computer that is currently running Fedora
> Core 1. The computer is a 300mhz PII with 128megs of ram. It
> does not boot from either the 100mb scsi zip drive nor the scsi
> cd. Just the floppy and and 2 6gig hard drives.

Are there floppy images on the CD? If you can dual-boot into Windows or
DOS, there might be "how to boot this CD from Windows" (involving
LOADLIN.EXE) directions too.

When I wanted to install Mandrake 7.2 onto a too-big HD (>528M, 486) in a
machine with no CD, I ended up transplanting the HD.

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-eben    ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm    home.tampabay.rr.com/hactar

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