RE: Boot/installing from NFS

From: Michael Anaya (mianaya_at_edatatrace.com)
Date: 02/05/04

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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:24:17 -0800

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: redhat-list-admin@redhat.com
    > [mailto:redhat-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Pete Nesbitt
    > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 8:14 PM
    > To: redhat-list@redhat.com
    > Subject: Re: Boot/installing from NFS
    >
    >
    > 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
    sounds like a bad disk. try making a new floppy. Every time this has
    happened to me it was due to errors on the cheap floppies i have. 

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