Floppy booting Fedora Core
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Sat Mar 26 00:58:07 UTC 2005
David Hoffman wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:39:59 -0500, Jogger <jogger at sayas.com> wrote:
>
>>Since this appears very illogical, I obviously must be missing something.
>
>
> Like the archives?
>
> Since FC2 was out, the kernel image is too large for a floppy. This is
> asked at least a few times each month on this list. Searching the
> archives would have provided an answer.
It's not Fedora that's the issue, it's the 2.6 kernel that's too big for
a floppy. That's why the release notes tell you that you need to boot
from CD, DVD, hard drive, network or USB flash drive.
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