boot disk

[Dan Trainor]

I've been confused by this a few times, too.  I just don't know ;)

Thanks
-dant



Dan Carpenter wrote:
> You actually don't need to make a boot floppy to use kickstarts right?
> 
> mkfs.vat /dev/fd0
> mount /mnt/floppy/
> <generate ks here magically>
> cp ks.cfg /mnt/floppy
> umount /mnt/floppy
> 
> Boot to the install CD and at the boot prompt type "linux ks=floppy".
> 
> The bootdisk.img has a huge kernel and initrd so it's not going to fit
> on a floppy ever.  To be honest I can't think why the docs even
> mention it at all.
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
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