Helllo
> i am new to this group. i am from cochin itself.
WELCOME To This BUTIFUL WRLD OF LINUX. :-)
> i got a doubt please help me..
ofcoz
> i need to boot the installation of the fedora from a floppy disk
> but the image is not in my cd's of the fedora core .
> is it only mising from my cd's or is it not availble for fedora cora?
yes in cdrom/images ..chk 4 diskboot.img
> is the image name is still disk.iso or boot.iso or some thing like
> that please tell me the exact name.
diskboot.img
> is the boot image is available for floppy disk?.
It cannnot be done with FC2.The disk Image is too large to fit into a
floppy. U wil hav to use a thumb drive or CD.
> if not can i use any other distros boot image?
NOPE
> or from where can i get the image to boot from floppy disk for the
> fedora core release as i need it very urjently.
I did this a few days back...mght giv u some ideas.chk it out
HOWTO : INSTALL FEDORA CORE 2 FROM ISO's :
The main problem : Boot Disk - too BIG - abt 6 MB. Used only with USB pen
drive. I dont hav a CD Writer. I dont hav a Thumb drive.
The System: Win 2000 + Redhat 9. P3.
HOW I INSTALLD FEDORA CORE 2 FROM ISO's !
1. Downloaded the 4 ISO's to a folder e:\fedora .
2. Used WinImage to browse the Fedora CD 1. Extracted /images/diskboot.img .
3. Again,Used WinImage to extract all files from diskboot.img to a folder
c:\boot\
4. Next I booted into RedHat 9
5.and made the foll changes to /etc/grub.conf so that i can boot into the
boot disk from grub. ( or u can do this directly from grub)
title fedora boot disk // not required if givg commands from
grub)
root(hd0,0) // whatevr
kernel /root/vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /root/initrd.img
7. Rebooted ( If giving grub commands , press b to boot).Follwed the link
and hey presto..and got the boot disk. Evrythin went smoothly after that.
caution : all 4 iso's shld b in a single folder.
OTHER WAYS TO OBTAIN diskboot.img
1. Download it. ( link given below)
2. In Linux, Mount the Fedora Core 1 in loop. then copy the image file from
cdrom/images directory.
mount -o loop -t iso9660 <isofilename> <mountpoint>
Now,copy the diskboot.img from /<mountpoint>/images/ to some place.
MORE IDEAS :
If u hav a windows system and need to install. Then U need to download
Loadlin.exe ( See Link below). Follow above procedures till the diskboot.img
contents hav been copied to a folder.Then reboot into DOS. Use loadlin to
load the initrd.img file.
DOWNLOADS:
1.. Fedora Core 2 : http://fedora.redhat.com/download/
2.. diskboot.img :
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/images/
3.. WinImage : http://www.topshareware.com/WinImage-download-72.htm
4.. Loadlin.exe : http://www.srcf.ucam.org/downloads/ ( file name
dualboot.zip)
Hope this is useful .
