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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
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<p class=MsoNormal > <font size=2 face=Arial > <span style= 'font-size:10.0pt;
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drives only floppy drives. <o:p > </o:p > </span > </font > </p >
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<p class=MsoNormal > <font size=2 face=Arial > <span style= 'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial ' >I used rewrite to copy the <span class=SpellE >bootnet.img </span >
file to a floppy at <span class=GramE >the <span style= 'mso-spacerun:yes ' >
</span >DOS </span > prompt under Windows 2000. When I try to boot from the floppy
I am getting a <b style= 'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal ' > <span style= 'font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal ' >“Boot <span class=SpellE >failed <span
class=GramE >:please </span > </span > change disk and press any key to
continue” <o:p > </o:p > </span > </b > </span > </font > </p >
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<p class=MsoNormal > <font size=2 face=Arial > <span style= 'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial ' >The point of this entire exercise is to be able to insert my
floppy into these <span class=SpellE >macbines </span >, get some interface where
I point to the boot image on the NFS server and get these machines installed. <o:p > </o:p > </span > </font > </p >
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<p class=MsoNormal > <font size=2 face=Arial > <span style= 'font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal > <font size=2 face=Arial > <span style= 'font-size:10.0pt;
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