boot disk

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Mon May 16 22:22:04 UTC 2005


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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