Linux boot floppy to install over net

[minxmertzmomo at gmail.com (Matt Morgan)]

On 1/3/06, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With all this going on, it seems to me there MUST be a floppy image
> that will load the minimum shell (including PCMCIA drivers!) and all
> over-the-net installs (HTTP, FTP, of NFS).
>
> That would really help on one old notebook I have.
>
> Oh, and of course this is for CentOS 4.2!

My understanding of this is that as of the 2.6 kernels, the kernels
are too big to fit on a floppy.

I haven't tried it myself--just rephrasing something I picked up on fedora-list.