On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:10, Fábio Augusto wrote: >Good Afternoon for all, > >I have an equipment without CD ROM driver and USB boot support. I > would like to know how can I boot from a floppy disk (if it's > possible) to start installation via NFS Server. > >In some older version (like Fedora 1) we could download the boot.img > and use dd to convert it to the floppy disk, but now I can't find it > anymore. > >Thanks 4 all, The boot image is now too big for anything but a 2.88 meg floppy. And by the time you put an initrd.img on it too, even that will be problematic. I have basicly stripped my kernel down to only what my hardware needs, and its still 1576854 Jan 17 10:42 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-rc1, and 112327 Jan 17 10:42 /boot/initrd-2.6.16-rc1.img Now imagine how big it would be if all the drivers for all the hardware that floppy might find itself plugged into were added. Next case. >-- >Fábio Augusto Miranda Martins >E-mail: fabiomirmar@xxxxxxxxx -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
