my e-mail to request opportunity to post: Making Boot Floppy
John Wendel
jwendel at fnmoc.navy.mil
Fri Nov 21 21:42:39 UTC 2003
On Friday 21 November 2003 12:33 pm, David Rangel wrote:
> I installed fedora on an Intel PC. At
> the end of the installation, when prompted
> to make a boot disk, I received an error
> indicating that the install system was
> unable to create sucha disk because the
> number of modules required to boot the
> machine made it impossible to fit the
> boot files on the 1.44Mb floppy.
> How does one make a boot floppy in such cases?
> How do I boot into my system now if there
> is a problem with the MBR?
> Thank you for any input.
Floppies are becoming less and less useful.
I always keep the latest version of Knoppix around to use as a rescue
disk (plus it's way cool). The first Fedora CD will also boot in
"rescue" mode.
--
John
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