[TriLUG] installing FC2 without boot floppy

[Rob Lockhart]

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On 10/28/2004 07:24 PM, David Rasch wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:52:19PM -0400, Jeremy Portzer
> <jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:

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>>
>> Fedora Core 2 and the 2.6 kernel are designed for modern
>> hardware; it's not unexpected to find out that you'd have
>> problems with dinosaurs. Either work around the problems or use
>> an older distribution that was designed for that hardware.
>
>
> It does beg the question of why the _Install_ need run on the 2.6
> kernel even if the distribution itself does.  Maybe I'm missing the
> point, but I've installed Debian with a 2.4 kernel from a boot disk
> running 2.2 with success in the past.  I will quickly cede that
> there will be certain hardware that will be unsupported by an older
>  kernel and thus there are _advantages_ to using the 2.6 kernel on
> the installation media.

Yes, exactly!!  I even tried using FC1 boot disks for the install but
I'd probably have to "hack" it to get it to work.  That would probably
take more time than to just go another route.  Your point is exactly
mine; I did get whitebox to install, but the kernel was having PCI bus
errors with the on-board 3c905 (no a,b,c) NIC (even after re-compiling
2.4.27, which took a whole working day on this slow dog).

Regards,
  -Rob

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