Am Di, den 19.10.2004 schrieb BILLDEVLP@xxxxxxx um 5:49: > HELLO: I am new here and have couple questions about FC distros. First of all Welcome. > the FC1 as REDHAT 9.0 allowed to make a boot floppy if you wanted but FC2 > installation just finishes without asking for boot floppy creation. I wander why > is this. I heard a theory that the kernel is too big to fit on a floppy but > the old installation was on two floppies (now I am changing direction) so can > the boot is put on two floppies? I tried to put initrd on a second disk but what > literature I was using looks like is obsolete. Any body have any opinion? The First: No, it can't be split on several floppies. No, the initial ramdisk image usage is not obsolete. > boot floppy to me is very important because you can put many distros on the > same hard drive in an extended partition (on the same PC for evaluation) > without interfering with each other and do not screw up the MB (for instance the > NTFS partition in Windows) > Bill You don't need to boot from floppy to have more than 1 OS on your hard drive. You can have several in parallel and all bootable from hard drive. Or, if you like, create a boot CD fro FC2 using mkbootdisk and the "--iso" parameter option. Alexander P.S. In future please do not send mail html formatted to the list, just plain text. And choose a "speaking subject". Thanks. -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp Serendipity 05:54:48 up 5 days, 1:06, load average: 0.86, 0.57, 0.49
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