On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 08:54 -0600, Erich Noll wrote:
I didn't think you could do it with Fedora because there's too much code
to fit in 1.44 Mb . On RHL 9 and before, the code could be crammed on floppy. I think you have to use a CD to boot Fedora.
Yup:
[prs@tabb1 ~]$ ll -h /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.737_FC3 /boot/initrd-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 382K Jan 11 08:13 /boot/initrd-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4M Jan 10 14:00 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.737_FC3
Considerably larger than a floppy.
Just for grins, I built a minimal kernel using the 2.6.10 sources, no modules, no network, no USB, no sound, drivers only for MY hardware. Just enough to rescue a sick system. The resulting kernel was 532K. Should work nicely on a floppy along with something like busybox. I realize that there is more to making a bootable floppy than just having a kernel. Does anyone know how to install it + a boot loader?
Regards,
John Wendel
