How to boot FC4 from removable media

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:35:22AM +0900, Saurabh Siddharth wrote:
> There is a bootdisk.img in the images directory of the Fedora4 CD1(first 
> of 4 cds) and also in the dvd. You can use this image to make a boot 
> disk. This will enable you to boot to your installation. You can do this 
>  before you install/upgrade fedora.

Yes, this'll work great if you can find a 6.4MB floppy disk. :)

> Question :  Wouldnt the boot disk from fedora 1(or any version) work to 
> boot into Fedora4(or any version) ?

The kernel wouldn't match the loadable kernel modules, so probably not. 

Good suggestions, but unfortunately, applying logic to the real world
doesn't produce predictable results. :)


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