Trying to install fc3 on a pentium 200mhz and the cd wont boot. Think the bios is to old, installed fine on more modern boxes. Any ideas on how to get fc3 on this sucker? A floppy boot disk would come in handy about now.
--Louis
Dnia 10/28/2004 09:42 PM, Użytkownik Louis Garcia napisał:
Trying to install fc3 on a pentium 200mhz and the cd wont boot. Think the bios is to old, installed fine on more modern boxes. Any ideas on how to get fc3 on this sucker?
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap2
Hope this will help.
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 15:42 -0400, Louis Garcia wrote:
Trying to install fc3 on a pentium 200mhz and the cd wont boot. Think the bios is to old, installed fine on more modern boxes. Any ideas on how to get fc3 on this sucker? A floppy boot disk would come in handy about now.
Not a development question, so off-topic for fedora-devel-list - good idea to post to fedora-test-list or just searched the archives of fedora-list
Nonetheless, using Smart Boot Manager (http://btmgr.sf.net/) is probably a good solution for you
--- Colin Charles byte@aeon.com.my wrote:
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 15:42 -0400, Louis Garcia wrote:
Trying to install fc3 on a pentium 200mhz and the
cd wont boot. Think
the bios is to old, installed fine on more modern
boxes. Any ideas on
how to get fc3 on this sucker? A floppy boot disk
would come in handy
about now.
Not a development question, so off-topic for fedora-devel-list - good idea to post to fedora-test-list or just searched the archives of fedora-list
Nonetheless, using Smart Boot Manager (http://btmgr.sf.net/) is probably a good solution for you
Since I didn't see them post it to the fedora-test-list, I'll answer it here this one time: It's probably not the machine itself.... it's most likely the cdrom that came with the old p200 that's the problem. When the boot manager switched to isolinux, most pre-1997 cdroms stopped working. Try flashing your BIOS and installing a new cdrom. That's how I got my old pentium 200 to work.
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