I don't believe the Fedora install is bootable from DOS. Perhaps someone will prove me wrong, but I don't expect that. If your only options are boot from hd or boot from floppy, I believe Debian can still be installed from floppy. You could then either stay with Debian, or set up a Fedora installation from hard drive by putting the installation vmlinuz and initrd.img in /boot and referencing them appropriately with grub or lilo. It may just be easier to upgrade the bios. W. Nick Dotson writes: > OK, I've the rankest of newbies; and have been depending heavily upon the list of Janina Sajska and Debee Norling, way too much thus far. I'm a document > reader, as I do Tech Support for a living and have been doing so since 1985... So, here goes the sharing of the pain! > > I've succeeded at downloading all the disks I think I need from the "linux-speakup.org" site, to the speakup, fedora, discs, current, and downloaded all of the > disks and put 'em on CD, and can see the files... > > The computer I'm wanting to torture with my learning curve is a 500MHz p3 with 1GB RAM, a 20GB drive that's going to belong to Fedora completely, and lots > of space for more discs for the fantasy things I think I can do with Linux and want to try to learn to do, both EIDE and SCSI support available. This used to be > my MIDI box... (grin) > > I can pay the cab company $40 for the roundtrip to the computer store, or try to con some UPS driver or mail person to help me change the BIOS for a CD-ROM > boot: but I'd rather not! I need precise steps if possible for booting from the CD-ROM from a "dOS prompt when I've exited 98 to MS-DOS, or, some other way > of getting the installation started... I have read the Red Hat 9 installation guide, and it refers to running "d:\dosutils\dosboot.bat" but find no "dosutils" folder on > any of the discs... > > Nick > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
