I had to do this same thing with an old sony vaio. You need a grub compiled with support for the NIC in the laptop (see netboot/README.netboot in the source dist). Then you need to make a boot floppy using this grub. Put the vmlinuz and initrd.img files from the FC2 iso's on a different machine on your network, and serve them using tftp. Set up all the files you need for a network install of FC2 on some machine, and serve them with httpd or ftpd or whatever you prefer for net install. Have a look at the grub manual using info. In particular read the 'network.general usage of network support'. Boot the laptop using the floppy you made, and do ifconfig --address=<ip you want for the laptop> --server=<ip of the tftp server> root (nd) kernel /tftproot/some/path/kernel_image_file [options] initrd /tftproot/some/path/initrd_image_file boot and you should be ready to do the network install. cheers, steve On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 09:31:14PM -0500, Brian Wall wrote: > I didn't realize that FC2 doesn't supply floppy images. I have a > laptop with no CDROM that will not boot off USB. The only boot medium > I have is floppy disk. Is there a way to break up the larger images > into floppies? I did a net install of FC1 on this machine using > floppies, and I'd like to do the same with FC2. > > -Brian > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Steve Linabery, sysadmin/developer World Cycling Productions _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list