my e-mail to request opportunity to post: Making Boot Floppy

[Chuck Mead]

David Rangel wrote:

>I installed fedora on an Intel PC.  At
>the end of the installation, when prompted
>to make a boot disk, I received an error
>indicating that the install system was
>unable to create sucha disk because the
>number of modules required to boot the 
>machine made it impossible to fit the
>boot files on the 1.44Mb floppy.
>How does one make a boot floppy in such cases?
>How do I boot into my system now if there
>is a problem with the MBR?
>Thank you for any input.
>  
>
Use CD #1 as a rescue disk booting via "linux rescue" at the boot prompt. If you have a network install point set up you could also boot from a boot.iso cd (see the images directory on your CD #1).

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