Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 test1

Thu Jan 22 05:27:33 UTC 2004

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 13:33, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 07:22 -0600, Brent J. Nordquist wrote:
> > It didn't offer to create a boot diskette; is that a known change?
> 
> The AMD64 kernel is too large to be able to use with floppies.  So boot
> floppies are out.

Jeremy,

Can't say I'd be sorry to see /dev/fd0 retired permanently.

Has anyone seriously considered floppy alternatives like a USB thumb
drive? In all other ways I use mine like a 256M floppy to move files
to/from machines in an autonomous lab network.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL