FC2 - anaconda - bootdisk creation

[Sean Estabrooks]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:07:50 -0400
Jim Cornette <jim-cornette at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Carnal Ortega wrote:
> > Phil,  how come I can boot fine with 1 floppy disk into my FC2 system? I 
> > ran mkbootdisk after a fresh install of FC2 and that was all I needed to 
> > do, just like with red hat's of the past. I'm booting into FC2 with the 
> > floppy in the same way I would if grub/lilo were on the mbr so I don't 
> > think I have a streamlined/rescue type kernel on that floppy. All the 
> > modules that need to be loaded at boot time are being loaded. I'm 
> > confused as to why people are saying this is not possible, what am I 
> > missing in this discussion?
> > 
> > Ps. it's a 2mb floppy
> > 
> This explains why you are able to make the boot disk.
> 
> I just tried what Jeff suggested and it created an image that was just a 
> bit larger than a 1.44 floppy. I got the below. This is on an athlon laptop.
> 
> > rw-r--r--  1 root root 1474560 Jun 17 23:00 /tmp/myboot.iso
> 

Jim, 

That will fit on a 1.44 floppy:

1474560 / 1024 = 1440K

Cheers,
Sean