On February 3, 2004 11:06 pm, Lawrence wrote: > Hi: > > I am trying to setup booting/installing from NFS on RedHat 8.0. I have > machines that that do not have CD-ROM drives only floppy drives. > > I used rewrite to copy the bootnet.img file to a floppy at the DOS > prompt under Windows 2000. When I try to boot from the floppy I am > getting a "Boot failed:please change disk and press any key to continue" > > The point of this entire exercise is to be able to insert my floppy into > these macbines, get some interface where I point to the boot image on > the NFS server and get these machines installed. > > Can someone help? > > Thanks, > Tee Hi, do you mean rawrite? I have had no problems with nfs installs (lots cause I use iso images as I have no burner) but always use a linux box to create the boot floppy with dd. If you have a plain DOS boot disk with cd support on it (like dos 5 or 6 and an atapi cd configed on it), you could use that to get to the cd's dosutils area and use rawrite from their incase w2k is doing something evil. I suppose you could boot the win box with the red Hat cd, then alt-f2 to a shell and create the floppy there with dd. I'm presuming dd would be availble but have not tried it. -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
