Fedora Install

[Robert Slade]

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 22:11, Adam Breaux wrote:
> Since the kernel is too big to fit on a floppy there is really no such
> thing anymore at least for Fedora.

That is not quite true, provided that the CD is readable, you can use a
boot loader on a floppy to boot the CD. See the FAQ. If the kernel being
booted does not support the CD or Interface with built in drivers, then
you are stuck. 

> 
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 00:39:44 +1100, Alan McDonald <alan at meta.com.au> wrote:
> > I've tried a couple of CD Drives, and tried them in all
> > Primary/Master/Secondary/Slave positions but my old box, even though it says
> > in the BIOS setup that it will boot from the CD, just keeps skipping over
> > the CD. It's got an old Ultrawide SCSI HD/Tape drive and Zip disk - maybe
> > that has something to do with it.
> > So I'm left with trying to create a floppy boot disk.
> > Can someone point me to some instructions on how to do this? I did it with
> > RedHat 9 with rawrite but I can't find anything on Fedora sites which make
> > reference to floppy boot disks.
> > thanks
> > Alan
> > 
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