Installation floppy disks for FC6?

[mysteron]

Hi.

I have a server, an ASUS P1600R-S5. This server doesn't detect my USB2 DVD-ROM drive, therefore I cannot install FC6 onto it. The server doesn't either have any onboard IDE ports, so I cannot plug a DVD IDE drive into it either. It does however detect my USB floppy.

Now I'm wondering, does someone have working floppy installation images for FC6? I've tried hacking the FC5 floppies from http://www.thisiscool.com/fcfloppy.htm, but that results in kernel panic:

isofs_fill_super : bread failed, dev=md1, iso_blknum=16, block=32
No filesystem could mount root, tried ext2 iso9660
kernel panic - not syncing : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(9,1)

So, I'm left with a server which I cannot install FC6 onto.

Feedback will be greatly appreciated


thx,
/mysteron

[Peter_APIIT]

Fedora core 6 doesn't not supported any floppy-disk installation. Please check the installation guide.

Typed fedora core 6 in google, in order to search for a official installation guide.



Good Luck.

I hope that you can solved your problem and headaches.

[mysteron]

Originally Posted by Peter_APIIT

Fedora core 6 doesn't not supported any floppy-disk installation. Please check the installation guide.
Typed fedora core 6 in google, in order to search for a official installation guide.
Good Luck.
I hope that you can solved your problem and headaches.

Yes, I solved this situation by first installing FC5 onto the server with the working FC5 floppy install disk set, and then following this system update guide:

http://www.tummy.com/journals/entrie...0061119_204316

Basically, this is what I did:
- I disabled all non-necessary daemons.
- upgraded these: rpm -Uvh MIRRORURL/fedora-release-notes-6-3.noarch.rpm MIRRORURL/fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm
- executed: yum clean all
- installed FC6 kernel: rpm -ivh MIRRORURL/kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686.rpm
- disabled autofs & haldaemon: chkconfig autofs off && chkconfig haldaemon off
- rebooted the system with the FC6 kernel
- deleted the FC5 kernel: rpm -e kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
- upgraded haldaemon: rpm -Uvh --nodeps MIRRORURL/hal-0.5.8.1-4.fc6.i386.rpm MIRRORULR/hal-cups-utils-0.6.2-4.i386.rpm MIRRORULR/hal-gnome-0.5.8.1-4.fc6.i386.rpm. If you have the hal-devel package, you have to upgrade that rpm package too.
- upgraded autofs: rpm -Uvh MIRRORURL/autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.10.i386.rpm
- upgraded the rest of all packages to FC6: yum update
- enabled autofs & haldaemon chkconfig autofs on && chkconfig haldaemon on
- rebooted the system.
- removed or replaced all .rpmnew files. Remember, do not replace your original /etc/passwd file with the passwd.rpmnew file, if such a file is created. Just compare them, and correct the information if necessary in your original /etc/passwd file.
- rebooted again.

If you follow this guide, remember to replace MIRRORURL with the whole path to the Fedora/RPMS/ directory.

The system is up and running now, with FC6 installed.


/mysteron