To Day is 10-18-04
HELLO: I am new here and have couple questions about FC distros. First
of all
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
That is correct - the kernel is too fat for a floppy.
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 I tried to put initrd on a second disk but what literature I was using looks like is obsolete.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 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
There are several solutions to that - one is called GAG (which is spanish stands for Graphical Boot Loader) or you could just use grub for the same thing.
I think you can make a grub boot floppy without any kernels on it, I know for fact gag will do what you want.
