On Sat, 27 Jul 2013, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 7/27/2013 12:57 PM, James Freer wrote:
>> I've got them sitting there so i might as well use them... costs
>> nothing. USB and SD cards are not for permanent data storage. 3.5
>> floppy aren't brilliant but that's an option for booting on.
>
>
> the modern kernel and initramfs won't fit on a 1.44MB floppy, how could
> you boot off it?
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4045680 Jul 16 17:15
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16500723 Jul 27 10:39
> /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64.img
>
> (thats a 4MB kernel and 16MB initramfs)
> john r pierce 37N 122W
The original poster was asking... read it again. It was a problem I had and I
used PLoP to boot from - the app can be put on a CD or floppy which is what I
did as my CD/DVD 'died'. One can use alternatives to boot from which appear to
work from a floppy. A floppy may be old but can be put to use rather than
throwing away which is almost what I did.
james
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