Re: Floppy boot install of Fedora for CD install via USB Sony DVD DRX-500ULX?

"Mark G. Spencer" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rhl.beta,gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Answering some of my question .. I tried bootdisk.img off FC1 CD1, and I got the following boot messages with my Sony DVD DRX-500ULX attached via USB:

hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x54c/0xee) is not claimed by any active driver.
crc error<6>Freeing initrd memory: 533k freed
VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 48:03
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 48:03

Does this mean I may be out of luck?  I looked for a bootdisk named "usbdrive.img" on FC1 CD1, but don't see anything like it, just the PCMCIA bootdisk which I don't think is applicable to a USB DVD drive?

Thanks,

Mark

>------------Original Message------------
>From: "Mark G. Spencer" <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Date: Thu, Nov-6-2003 10:48 AM
>Subject: Floppy boot install of Fedora for CD install via USB Sony DVD DRX-500ULX?
> 
>I'm about to try and install Fedora on an older laptop that only has a floppy drive and USB.  I have a USB DVD drive that I would like to use to install the Fedora CD's.  >Does anyone know if this is possible?  I'm going to try the standard bootdisk.img on Fedora Core 1 CD1 and hope that it allows the DVD drive via USB to be used for >installation.  ;)

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