Install FC2 boot from floppy?

[Gregory Woodbury]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:07:43AM +0200, YigalB wrote:
> >> is it still possible to boot fc2 from floppy to install? I have not
> seen
> >> floppy images on the cd's to create a boot floppy.
> >> I want to install it on a machine which cant boot from cdrom.
> >>
> >> thanks in advance,\
> >> Edwin
> >
> >This has been asked and answered many times on this list. The kernel
> will
> >not
> >fit on a floppy. Thus no floppy install is available.
> [<Yigal>] Will it fit a USB flash disk (assuming PC can boot from USB)?
> What is the minimal size required for the kernel?

There is a boot.iso image of 4MB size and a diskboot.img file (for USB
key drive) that is 6MB in size.  These images include most drivers in an
initrd image and the memtest86 program.

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