Fedora 3 installation question

[Janina Sajka]

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
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