floppy install

[Gregory Woodbury]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:07:27PM -0400, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I am starting to get a small feel for the FC2 Linux os with many 
> differences from my old Mandrake 10.0 distro and I must say that I like 
> what I have seen so far. In as much, I will be re-formatting my machine 
> to remove the MDK and put in the FC2 code.
> 
> I have seen that I can use a boot.iso burned onto a cdrom to install 
> Fedora, but I was wondering what provisions were there for booting from 
> a floppy and then installing over the net, NFS, hard drive, http, etc... ?
> 
> Seems that if FC2 only supports bootable CDROM systems then it would be 
> hard to place on some older machines or did I miss something?

No, you didn't miss anything.  The kernel for FC2 is too big to fit on a
1.44MiB floppy along with a reasonable initrd image for booting.

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