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Hi,
I've downloaded Fedora 9 and burned onto 6 CDs in ISO format hoping to install on an
old PC in place of WinME. I find that the PC won't boot from the CD drive - probably
too old.
How can I proceed? Do I need boot.img? Where can I get it from?
Thanks, Chris
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On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 19:07 +0200, cjakeman wrote:
Did exactly that and discovered that copying an ISO image to a CD is
not enough to achieve booting. Now downloaded the free CDBurnerXP
(which also runs on Vista) and this will burn an ISO image and
automatically include the boot sector.
That's a FAQ... You don't burn the ISO file onto a disc as a file, you
use the ISO file as your template for burning a disc. It contains the
entire contents of the disc, as it needs to be written to the disc.
You use your "burn from ISO", or "burn from image" feature.
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Hi Tim,
Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 08:29 +0200, cjakeman wrote:
Have you burnt the disc in a manner that it can be booted from? (Try it on another PC,
you can boot it without upsetting anything on the hard drive, simply don't start
installing.)
Did exactly that and discovered that copying an ISO image to a CD is not enough to
achieve booting. Now downloaded the free CDBurnerXP (which also runs on Vista) and this
will burn an ISO image and automatically include the boot sector.
I've also scrounged a beefier PC, so I'm making progress.
Thanks for your advice (and also to Tom, Les and g),
Chris
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Hi Les and Tom,
Thanks for your advice.
I've tried http://en.opensuse.org/Install_on_PC_that_can't_boot_from_CD [1] but
couldn't make it load from the CD.
Although 7 years old, the PC is 1.3GHz and 256MB so it should cope. However, I only want
it to run a webserver, so perhaps I should go for a smaller distro.
Chris
Links:
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[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Install_on_PC_that_can't_boot_from_CD
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On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 08:29 +0200, cjakeman wrote:
Although 7 years old, the PC is 1.3GHz and 256MB so it should cope.
I'd be surprised that a PC that fast was built before booting from
CD-ROMs was a supported feature.
What have you done to try and boot from the CD?
Have you gone through the BIOS and looked for boot options? Perhaps a
different CD drive will work better? (Boot drive order, configuring IDE
ports to recognise that a CD is connected to one, etc.)
Have you burnt the disc in a manner that it can be booted from? (Try it
on another PC, you can boot it without upsetting anything on the hard
drive, simply don't start installing.)
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cjakeman wrote:
Hi Les and Tom,
Thanks for your advice.
I've tried http://en.opensuse.org/Install_on_PC_that_can't_boot_from_CD [1] but
couldn't make it load from the CD.
Although 7 years old, the PC is 1.3GHz and 256MB so it should cope. However, I only want
it to run a webserver, so perhaps I should go for a smaller distro.
There are other floppy boot loaders around that you could try, but I'd
recommend Centos 3.x as a better match for the machine. It should have
a floppy boot image and security/bugfix updates are still continuing.
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cjakeman wrote:
Although 7 years old, the PC is 1.3GHz and 256MB so it should cope.
However, I only want it to run a webserver, so perhaps I should go
for a smaller distro.
i have moved 'old mail' of this system, so i can not check,
have you given thought to upgrading your bios?
a newer bios should give you both cd and usb boot ability.
then, depending on how you run web server, you may need to
increase memory.
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On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
cjakeman wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've downloaded Fedora 9 and burned onto 6 CDs in ISO format hoping to
> install on an old PC in place of WinME. I find that the PC won't boot from
> the CD drive - probably too old.
A machine that old will probably not give a good Fedora experience.
You might want to look into something like minix for it.
See www.minix3.org
Or look into one of the lightweight Linux distributions.
-Tom
Tom Browder
Niceville, Florida
USA
cjakeman wrote:
Hi,
I've downloaded Fedora 9 and burned onto 6 CDs in ISO format hoping to install on an
old PC in place of WinME. I find that the PC won't boot from the CD drive - probably
too old.
How can I proceed? Do I need boot.img? Where can I get it from?
The boot.img you need for a 2.6 kernel has never fit on a floppy. There
are several other approaches, the simplest being a floppy boot that can
proceed to boot the CD. This was the first thing that popped up in a
search but it should work regardless of the OS:
http://en.opensuse.org/Install_on_PC_that_can't_boot_from_CD
Or, if the PC will boot from a USB flash device you can put the boot
image on that (but if it won't boot from CD you are probably out of luck
there too).
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:58:32 +0200
cjakeman <no-reply-gw(a)fcp.surfsite.org> wrote:
How can I proceed? Do I need boot.img? Where can I get it from?
The Fedora boot disk got too big to fit on any floppy disk some time ago.
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