The future of Diskette bootstraps

Pedro Fernandes Macedo webmaster at margo.bijoux.nom.br
Mon May 17 21:59:25 UTC 2004


Guy Fraser wrote:

> I would presume that boot floppies should be around for a little while 
> longer but floppies are too small to be used much longer.
>
> I have been noticing more and more computers being sold that don't 
> come with floppy drives anymore. I'm not just talking about Mac's 
> either. We have a bunch of little machines we use for single purpose 
> servers, and they don't come with a floppy or CD, so we hookup a CD to 
> get the install started and do a network install.
>
> Good luck.

Two possibilities:
1 - some machines have support to network boot. Maybe try this?
2 - I dont know if Fedora Core 2 will have it , but during test , a 
pendrive image was released , so you could boot from USB..

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Pedro Macedo





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