Suitability for trying to get a floppy based install instructions into fc5 release notes?

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 04:21:41PM -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 9/2/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Maintainer of this project would get the code into Fedora Extras .  Even
> > otherwise it could also get it a honorable mention in the FC
> > Installation guide as a community effort. That should get it enough
> > visibility.
> 
> actually ive been made painfully aware that bringing this up...was a bad idea.
> The technical specifics of whats being used in that reference url
> aren't supportable by the available infrastructure. Its not enough to
> just shove images to extras..the images can't natively be built.   So
> really this specific technique is a non-starter and i didn't realize
> it.

What's missing to make it possible? FreeDOS? Could other possibility be
using a very limited kernel + kexec?

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lfr
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