harddisk install/boot from floppy

Pybe squalidstuff at gmail.com
Sat Jan 8 20:44:59 UTC 2005


On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:33:03 -0200, Gustavo Rahal <gustavo at grahal.net> wrote:
>  Hi
> 
> Is it possible to install from the harddisk booting from a floppy?
> My notebook cdrom is broken. Network install (PXE) did not work. When it
> gets to the partitioning part, the installer doesn't detect any harddisk or
> partiton. I know that with harddisk install I might get the same problem but
> it's worth a try.

I wasnt able to do the pxe install but i did managed to use an
existing grub install to boot the netboot vmlinuz etc which worked for
me.

Pybe




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