fedora install using floppy

[jim lawrence]

On 4/30/05, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 09:13 -0700, bruce wrote:
> > hi...
> >
> > still struggling with this issue..
> >
> > for those new to the problems, we have a number of systems that only have
> > floppies.. we need to be able to install FC3 on the systems. we have the FC3
> > iso files on a http/ftp server on the network. our need is to somehow come
> > up with a floppy that will allow us to insert the floppy, load any required
> > drivers, and allow us to start the Fedora installation process.
> 
> kernel is too big to fit on a floppy unfortunately.
> If you can boot from a usb key, that will work though.
> 
> I suppose it might be possible to build a custom kernel that is small
> enough and then build a custom fc3 install set that uses that kernel,
> but I don't know if that is possible, or worth the effort.
> 
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ask google and you shall recieve... 
First hit 
http://www.thisiscool.com/fc3floppy.htm
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Jim Lawrence
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