Trying to get help on making a bootable floppy...

[Phil Schaffner]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 08:54 -0600, Erich Noll wrote:
> I didn't think you could do it with Fedora because there's too much code
> to fit in 1.44 Mb .  On RHL 9 and before, the code could be crammed on 
> floppy.  I think you have to use a CD to boot Fedora.

Yup:

[prs at tabb1 ~]$ ll -h /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.737_FC3 /boot/initrd-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.img
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 382K Jan 11 08:13 /boot/initrd-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.img
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.4M Jan 10 14:00 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.737_FC3

Considerably larger than a floppy.

Try

# mkbootdisk --iso --device boot`uname -r`.iso `uname -r`
# ll -h boot2.6.10-1.737_FC3.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2.2M Jan 12 21:29 boot2.6.10-1.737_FC3.iso

Burn the result to a CD-R/RW with k3b or your favorite burner.

Phil