Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 test1

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 15:08 -0500, csm at Lunar-Linux.org wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jeremy Katz spewed into the bitstream:
> JK>On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 07:22 -0600, Brent J. Nordquist wrote:
> JK>> It didn't offer to create a boot diskette; is that a known change?
> JK>
> JK>The AMD64 kernel is too large to be able to use with floppies.  So boot
> JK>floppies are out.
> 
> So what is left unsaid is that since the kernel image *is* too large for a
> floppy then a rescue situation would require CD#1 or boot.iso plus a
> network install point.

And I'll go ahead and say that "you might as well get used to it"
across the board.  Floppies are a thing of the past.  Rawhide for x86
has no floppy boot images and unless something major changes, that's the
way forward.  

Jeremy