boot disk

[bruce]

jesse,

it is possible to boot with simply a floppy, if you have access to a network
http/ftp server. there are (believe it or not) servers that only have floppy
drives, with no hard drives...

in fact, i had to essentially do a RH install using a floppy, and then do
the network install to get to FC...

-bruce


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Jesse Keating
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 3:22 PM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: boot disk


On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 17:18 +0200, gareth wrote:
> yo, i wanted to make a kickstart boot disk, the redhat
> manual said i first have to make a boot disk by imaging
> images/bootdisk.img (from the cd) to a formatted stiffy disk.
> however the only .img file under images is diskboot.img
> which's 6MB?
>

Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (4) no longer support booting
from floppy disks.  If you want to boot from CD and use a kickstart
config held on a floppy disk, that is fine.  Just put the ks.cfg file in
the root directory of your floppy, boot the CD with ks=floppy option.

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