With all this going on, it seems to me there MUST be a floppy image that will load the minimum shell (including PCMCIA drivers!) and all over-the-net installs (HTTP, FTP, of NFS). That would really help on one old notebook I have. Oh, and of course this is for CentOS 4.2!
On 1/3/06, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:> With all this going on, it seems to me there MUST be a floppy image > that will load the minimum shell (including PCMCIA drivers!) and all > over-the-net installs (HTTP, FTP, of NFS). > > That would really help on one old notebook I have. > > Oh, and of course this is for CentOS 4.2!My understanding of this is that as of the 2.6 kernels, the kernels are too big to fit on a floppy. I haven't tried it myself--just rephrasing something I picked up on fedora-list.
On 1/3/06, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:> With all this going on, it seems to me there MUST be a floppy image > that will load the minimum shell (including PCMCIA drivers!) and all > over-the-net installs (HTTP, FTP, of NFS). > > That would really help on one old notebook I have. > > Oh, and of course this is for CentOS 4.2!Nope. No floppy images for the 4.x series. They just don't fit on floppies anymore. You can pxeboot though if the notebook is capable. It's a bit more difficult to set up than "insert floppy" but it's not too rough. -- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:> With all this going on, it seems to me there MUST be a > floppy image that will load the minimum shell (including > PCMCIA drivers!) and all over-the-net installs (HTTP, FTP, > of NFS).Nope. Only 4-6MiB .iso (CD) and .img (flash/removable) images. Consider those -- e.g., the .img via USB dongle.> That would really help on one old notebook I have.Will that old notebook even run CentOS?> Oh, and of course this is for CentOS 4.2!Yes, and a USB dongle is a great solution. ;-> -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------- *** Speed doesn't kill, difference in speed does ***
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:19:25AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:> With all this going on, it seems to me there MUST be a floppy image > that will load the minimum shell (including PCMCIA drivers!) and all > over-the-net installs (HTTP, FTP, of NFS). > > That would really help on one old notebook I have. > > Oh, and of course this is for CentOS 4.2!Regardless what other said, it IS possible to acomplish what you want. Yes, you can't fit the install image on a floppy, but you can still boot from a floppy, load the image using tftp, and install. Just get yourself a floppy-based PXE boot, setup a install server, and you are good to go. I did it a few days ago. Check http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-sag-en-4/ch-pxe.html You can get the PXE boot image from http://grid-it.cnaf.infn.it/index.php?pxefloppy&type=1 Best Regards, - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDurzEpdyWzQ5b5ckRArWBAJ9MkR8zVjrLbriCM6US/I+uXr5mIACePXbG 64fqbAVzPt/fa9K4pXdNUx8=5wp/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----