floppy install

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu Sep 9 11:38:59 UTC 2004


On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:54:41PM -0400, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> What about the possibility of having a multi-floppy version of the 
> boot.iso in that older machines would be able to take advantage of 
> Fedora as well?

Assuming you have a CD-ROM drive then you only need enough to boot that
CD-ROM images. 

> worth investigating?

Probably

> Well, just my small input on what I see is a small short-fall of the system.

There is a howto on installing Fedora without either a Floppy or CDROM which
may also be helpful especially if you have a network:

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~colohan/docs/fedora_upgrade.html





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