Yes, floppy.

I have an old Dell PowerEdge SC 1420, originally a server, now
mainly for backups and bulk storage; I used to have to burn a boot.iso to
CD, and put a Fedora DVD into an external USB drive in order to be able
to upgrade it.

Last time was much easier; preupgrade worked, no sweat, and it
ran fine for a long while. Then I goofed it up. (Never mind how -- sheer
stupidity, mistaking it for another machine on my LAN that did have
trouble.)

So I want to try F13 in rescue mode -- unless there's a better
way. (Remember, it doesn't seem to be able to get its electrons around
the idea of a DVD, even with Fedora and the external drive to help. Or
unless there's a boot.iso, small enough for a CD, that I somehow failed
to find.)

Point is, it does seem to recognize an external USB floppy drive
just fine, and maybe even be willing to boot from one ...

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On 05/08/10 21:00, Beartooth wrote:
>
> Yes, floppy.
> Or
unless there's a boot.iso, small enough for a CD, that I somehow failed
to find.)



What your looking for is called netinst.iso (sp?)
You should find it on most of the mirrors:
eg:
http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/i386/iso/


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