On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:07:50 -0400 Jim Cornette <jim-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Carnal Ortega wrote: > > Phil, how come I can boot fine with 1 floppy disk into my FC2 system? I > > ran mkbootdisk after a fresh install of FC2 and that was all I needed to > > do, just like with red hat's of the past. I'm booting into FC2 with the > > floppy in the same way I would if grub/lilo were on the mbr so I don't > > think I have a streamlined/rescue type kernel on that floppy. All the > > modules that need to be loaded at boot time are being loaded. I'm > > confused as to why people are saying this is not possible, what am I > > missing in this discussion? > > > > Ps. it's a 2mb floppy > > > This explains why you are able to make the boot disk. > > I just tried what Jeff suggested and it created an image that was just a > bit larger than a 1.44 floppy. I got the below. This is on an athlon laptop. > > > rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Jun 17 23:00 /tmp/myboot.iso > Jim, That will fit on a 1.44 floppy: 1474560 / 1024 = 1440K Cheers, Sean
