On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:07:27PM -0400, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Hello All, > > I am starting to get a small feel for the FC2 Linux os with many > differences from my old Mandrake 10.0 distro and I must say that I like > what I have seen so far. In as much, I will be re-formatting my machine > to remove the MDK and put in the FC2 code. > > I have seen that I can use a boot.iso burned onto a cdrom to install > Fedora, but I was wondering what provisions were there for booting from > a floppy and then installing over the net, NFS, hard drive, http, etc... ? > > Seems that if FC2 only supports bootable CDROM systems then it would be > hard to place on some older machines or did I miss something? No, you didn't miss anything. The kernel for FC2 is too big to fit on a 1.44MiB floppy along with a reasonable initrd image for booting. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury `- -' RHCT U The Line Eater is a boojum!
