boot floppies??

[Michael A. Peters]

The kernel is too big for a floppy - I wish it had one too.
I gather there was quite a bit of discussion on that.

My opinion - even if you have to use a 2.4 kernel for it - a boot floppy
should be there.

But with respect to installing via ftp - there is a 4 MB boot ISO that
you can do that with - it's on CD1 but I suspect it's also on a mirror
somewhere so you don't have to download 700MB to get 4MB.

On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 14:12, Damian Menscher wrote:
> I usually do my installs over the network after booting from a floppy.
> FC2t2 doesn't include floppy boot images.  Perhaps this is an oversight?
> (I'd really rather not go through the effort of burning a CD.)
> 
> Also, the release notes make mention of 3 binary CDs and 3 source CDs.
> I just downloaded the binary torrent, and it's on 4 CDs.  Is this going
> to be made to fit on 3 CDs before the final release, or do the release
> notes need to be updated?
> 
> [Two bug reports, and I haven't even attempted an install yet!]
> 
> Damian Menscher
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