On 01/02/2013 08:49 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
On 1/2/13, M de Luis <gimme_the_giffs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When I copied the Net installation iso of Fedora to my USB flash drive using
the Fedora LiveUSB creator, I noticed that the pre-existing FAT32 filesystem
on the thumb drive had been unaltered, and that DOS readable files for the
live image and Network installation had been added in 4-new directories.
Presumably some sort of boot loader, that is able to read the FAT32
filesystem files, was added to the boot sector region of the flash drive. As
soon as I am able to recreate this mystery boot loader's installation
process for a FAT32 formatted IDE drive, then the problem is licked. It's no
effort to boot the laptop from a Windows98 rescue disk using the floppy
drive, create a temporarily bootable DOS partition for the Net installation
files, and then given the bios' legacy USB support will allow, merely copy
the appropriate installation directories and files from the thumb drive to
the hard disk. Install the boot loader, and away you go.
Okay, so who can tell me which bootloader is written into a thumb drive's
boot sector, when the Fedora LiveUSB Creator tool prepares a USB flash drive
using one of the installation iso images?
The bootloader is called SYSLINUX: http://www.syslinux.org/
IThey include DOS binaries.
Unfortunately, the copy of DOS included on the Windows 98 boot disk
does not have a USB mass storage driver (or any sort of USB driver for
that matter), though you might have some luck with this stuff:
http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm
That being said, the easiest solution IMHO is to plug its hard drive
into a different machine and do the install there.
--T.C.
That would probably *not* be a good idea, unless the other machine is
identical. The install process customizes the system to fit the hardware
it finds--video, sound, hard drive controller, Ethernet chip, etc.
It's very likely that when you moved the drive back to your original
machine, nothing would work.
--doug
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