Timothy Murphy wrote:
The essential point was that the PictureBook
was very picky about boot devices - for example,
you could only boot (Windows or Linux) from their own PCMCIA-CD reader.
So you are saying the everyone with this hardware is having problems
but it couldn't be the hardware's fault ... hmmm ... odd sort of
logic.
The Fedora CD#1 would not boot on this machine.
How did it fail? Did it not read the bits off that particular piece of
plastic (which hardly sounds like the fault of the content) or did the
kernel load but the drivers failed to work with this machine? I do
kind-of remember a long discussion about boot issues on some earlier
fedora version though but I'm too lazy to go back and search for the
cause.
And I was unable to install Fedora-5 on an AMD Sempron machine
from CDs because of repeated CD reader failures.
Again, when I asked about this I found many people
had had the same experience.
Maybe that was the one. Does anyone know if there was a resolution or
if it was really cause by the way the image is created?
As I have explained (many times) when I have problems with Fedora CDs -
which is too often the case - I install from the hard disk.
If you have another machine, you can always download the isos there and
do an NFS install.
I certainly would not purchase a floppy drive for this purpose.
Copying the boot image to a USB flash drive would be the way to go these
days.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
