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Fedora Core 2, floppy disks, and making it boot

  • 18-01-2005 12:39pm
    #1
    Lemming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,149 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey guys,

    My firewall machine at home went tits up last night with a catastrophic disk failure, so I'm replacing the hard-drive. I am going to install Fedora Core 2 (I have Core 3 somewhere but can't find it and *need* to be back up and running this evening) and I've just noticed that there's no floppy boot disk image. The machine in question is very old - a p200 - so I'm unsure if it has usb boot support, and I'm not sure if it can boot from cd-rom. If it can then it's all well and good, but if not ....

    Is there anyway of getting it to recognise a floppy boot image? I've seen reports that Fedora Core 1 boot disks will not work so am a bit stumped for ideas.

    Anyone got any *sane* suggestions?


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  • #2
    bminish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 480 ✭✭bminish


    Lemming wrote:
    Hey guys,

    Anyone got any *sane* suggestions?

    Well it's not the answer you are looking for but how about looking at
    clarkconnect the non beta version is RH9 based and the 3.0 beta is fedora core based.

    You can boot from a floppy and install it over the net. it's a good firewall solution and it's easy to configure

    of course if it's just a firewall you need then m0n0wall may be just what you need

    most p200 era machines will boot from a cd so you'll probably be ok


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