On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 22:11, Adam Breaux wrote: > Since the kernel is too big to fit on a floppy there is really no such > thing anymore at least for Fedora. That is not quite true, provided that the CD is readable, you can use a boot loader on a floppy to boot the CD. See the FAQ. If the kernel being booted does not support the CD or Interface with built in drivers, then you are stuck. > > On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 00:39:44 +1100, Alan McDonald <alan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've tried a couple of CD Drives, and tried them in all > > Primary/Master/Secondary/Slave positions but my old box, even though it says > > in the BIOS setup that it will boot from the CD, just keeps skipping over > > the CD. It's got an old Ultrawide SCSI HD/Tape drive and Zip disk - maybe > > that has something to do with it. > > So I'm left with trying to create a floppy boot disk. > > Can someone point me to some instructions on how to do this? I did it with > > RedHat 9 with rawrite but I can't find anything on Fedora sites which make > > reference to floppy boot disks. > > thanks > > Alan > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > -- > Adam Breaux > > breauxaj@xxxxxxxxx > http://www.adambreaux.com
