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Fedora Core 2 DVD Install without boot CD Howto

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insomnia:
Bad idea.
If you want to use hard-drive install, Take the first CD(four times smaller), install the minimum and apt-get everything.
No need to do a full DVD download.

hm_murdock:
I didn't do a DVD download. Worker did. He was nice enough to send it to me, and I opted for the DVD edition. I had no idea that there was no longer a boot floppy.

Either arbitrarily or for technical reasons, FC2 doesn't have a floppy image, so, I was boned. The only option was to burn this stupid 4MB boot.iso. Nobody I know was gonna waste a CD on that. Getting ANOTHER CD image would be pushing my luck with my friends. None of them are Linux users, so they weren't gonna waste their time.

The process works, works fine, and it solves the problem.

The apt-get solution is unacceptable, as many people do not have a fast enough connection to pull that much shit down. And even then, would they know what all to get? I sure as Hell don't.

KernelPanic:
meh, I just mounted my DVD ISO on loopback and added it to my apt sources then did a dist-upgrade. It worked real nice. Saved a DVD-R too.

zao:

quote:Originally posted by JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder:
Either arbitrarily or for technical reasons, FC2 doesn't have a floppy image, so, I was boned.
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The size of kernel 2.6.x is too large to fit on a single floppy drive so any linux distros based on this kernel won't include it. Hope it responds to your question

worker201:
Au contraire.  A customized bz kernel will easily fit on a floppy.  It's only when you put all that extra crap on there, like scsi support, raid support, 600 sound card drivers, 7,000 terminal drivers, and all that other useless shit that the kernel becomes too big to boot from a 3.5".

Hey, I just suddenly had a flash idea.  Nobody would be generous enough to host it, but here it is - a netbased kernel builder.  You go to the website, and you customconfigure a kernel, probably based on some php forms or something.  You only get the stuff you absolutely need to get the thing started, at which point you can install an OS or whatever.  A simple kernel and systemMap that only supported your cd player, an ide hard drive, and a keyboard would be enough to get you going, and that would easily fit on a floppy.  Of course people with bootable dvds or hot transfer rates wouldn't have to bother with this sort of thing.  But special cases and shitty computers would benefit from this.

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