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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