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floppy install revisited (for FC4)
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| andrew 2005-12-01, 8:55 pm |
| My apologies - i have read many posts regarding this, but none with a
solution thus far.
An old Toshiba laptop appears to have lost its ability to boot from CD
(It once booted from the FC4 Rescue CD and proceded to install, but the
CD drive died shortly thereafter, and it has been failing to boot from
CD since the drive replacement). Floppy and HD are the only other boot
devices in the BIOS.
What are my installation options without CD bootability? Are there no
boot floppies to trigger the install? (Perhaps, a floppy that can refer
to the CD, if not to the ISO images on the HD. Fedora Core 1 has a
boot floppy, but that one is apparently unusable with FC4, giving
version incompatibility messages.)
tia
andrew
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| andrew 2005-12-01, 8:55 pm |
| andrew wrote:
> My apologies - i have read many posts regarding this, but none with a
> solution thus far.
>
> An old Toshiba laptop appears to have lost its ability to boot from CD
> (It once booted from the FC4 Rescue CD and proceded to install, but the
> CD drive died shortly thereafter, and it has been failing to boot from
> CD since the drive replacement). Floppy and HD are the only other boot
> devices in the BIOS.
>
> What are my installation options without CD bootability? Are there no
> boot floppies to trigger the install? (Perhaps, a floppy that can refer
> to the CD, if not to the ISO images on the HD. Fedora Core 1 has a
> boot floppy, but that one is apparently unusable with FC4, giving
> version incompatibility messages.)
Well, my double apologies for not having read all the current messages
in this group thoroughly. Thanks to the posters referring to
http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3?body=about.html
I just tried "Smart Boot Manager" and it _totally_ worked!
thanks a million
andrew
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