On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 14:13 -0400, Carnal Ortega wrote: > Fully featured I believe. If you run mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 `uname > -r` it should only prompt for 1 floppy disk like in the past even if > you're running 2.6.x. As has been discussed frequently on this list (see below for a relevant example), the distribution 2.6 kernels won't fit on a floppy. Unfortunately mkbootdisk doesn't make that obvious when you try to create one, but trying to boot from it will fail. Has been some discussion of whether or not a pared-down kernel can be made to fit, possibly on a larger-than-1440k floppy, but haven't seen any reports of success. Can create a grub boot floppy for MBR emergencies - also discussed in the past. On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 10:20 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:41:33 -0400, Mark Haney > <mark.haney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:11:26 -0400 (EDT), <sydney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hello Everyone: > > > > > > Is there a way to boot from a floppy for this version? > > > > Are you talking about installing using a boot floppy or just booting FC2 > > with a floppy? I have a screwy HP that also has XP on it that keeps over > > writing grub with it's ever-so-useful-save-me-from-myself system restore > > feature that requires me to use a boot floppy. It works just fine for me > > on that box. > > what you are going to want to do in that situation is make a boot iso > for example for the 2.6.5-1.358 uniprocessor kernel: > mkbootdisk --device /tmp/myboot.iso 2.6.5-1.358 > > will create a very small myboot.iso that you can use to boot from > directly into your running fedora system. > > > -jef > Phil
