fedora install using floppy

[bruce]

already saw this, and quite a few others on google.. this isn't suitable,
given that it requires you to have dos on the drive, and a few other
issues...

but thanks..


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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of jim lawrence
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 11:07 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: fedora install using floppy


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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