boot disk

[Jesse Keating]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 15:28 -0700, bruce wrote:
> 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...

Well, sure.  There are all kinds of ways to hack/boot a box and then
bootstrap whatever into it.  However Red Hat no longer produces floppy
boot images as the initrd is just too big these days.  Even with the
smallest driver set it can be too big.

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