 | | | Boot/installing from NFS | Boot/installing from NFS 2004-02-04 - By Pete Nesbitt
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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.
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Pete Nesbitt, rhce
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