fedora install using floppy

[Arthur Pemberton]

bruce wrote:

>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...
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>but thanks..
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I just checked

http://www.thisiscool.com/fc3floppy.htm

Where did it say that you have to have dos on the drive?

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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
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>On 4/30/05, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
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>>On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 09:13 -0700, bruce wrote:
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>>>hi...
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>>>still struggling with this issue..
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>>>for those new to the problems, we have a number of systems that only
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>have
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>>>floppies.. we need to be able to install FC3 on the systems. we have the
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>FC3
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>>>iso files on a http/ftp server on the network. our need is to somehow
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>come
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>>>up with a floppy that will allow us to insert the floppy, load any
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>required
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>>>drivers, and allow us to start the Fedora installation process.
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>>kernel is too big to fit on a floppy unfortunately.
>>If you can boot from a usb key, that will work though.
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>>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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