FC3 create floppy disk
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Feb 25 17:12:34 UTC 2005
Pasquale Imbemba wrote:
> how do I configure fedora 3 to make a bootdisk after installation? In
> FC1, I clicked on "no bootloader" during installation (when GRUB was
> proposed) and at the very end of the installation, fedora asked if I
> wanted to create a bootdisk, since it would not be possible to boot the
> system otherwise.
>
> In FC3, this doesn't occur! I don't want no boot loader to be installed
> anywhere, except on floppy... where do I find the relative settings?
The 2.6 kernel is too big to fit on a floppy. You can create a boot CD
using the --iso option to mkbootdisk though.
If you really need to use a floppy then you could use smart boot manager
(see http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/news.html).
Why don't you want a bootloader installed anyway?
Paul.
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