Floppy booting Fedora Core

[Richard E Miles]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:39:59 -0500
"Jogger" <jogger at sayas.com> wrote:

> The earlier versions of the Fedora Core offered a choice of creating a boot
> floppy during the installation process. This was a perfect choice when a
> dual boot system was necessary and starting the Linux booting process from a
> floppy was an acceptable alternative.
>  
> However, I have just downloaded and tried to install Fedora Core ver 4, just
> to find this choice is no longer available. Apparently, if the user chooses
> not to install Grub to the hard drive and consequently remove the native
> windows booting area, no alternative is offered.
>  
> Since this appears very illogical, I obviously must be missing something.
> Can someone please shine some light in my direction? Thanks in advance for
> any help.
>  
> Jogger
> 

The problem is that basically the kernel is now too big to fit on a floppy. Thus
there is no option to produce a bootable kernel floppy.

-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA. USA
registered linux user 46097