fc3t2: mkbootdisk does not work with floppy disk

[D. Stolte]

i should have mentioned that i know that the files are too big. but why 
does mkbootdisk
a) write to floppy despite this fact
b) does not tell the user that floppy does not work and he should use
the iso option instead?

i just had a talk with a newbie who wanted to test fc3t2 and he ran into
this problem. i think it is not too hard to put a line like "if $dev = 
/dev/fd*" then ... in it to prevent this.

/ds

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha schrieb:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:53:43PM +0200, D. Stolte wrote:
> 
>>[root at gateway boot]# mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.6.8-1.541
>>Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost.
>>Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort:
>>cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.WB6069/initrd.img': No space left on device
>>cat: write error: No space left on device
>>cat: write error: No space left on device
>>20+0 records in
>>20+0 records out
>>
>>booting from this floppy does not work, of course.
> 
> 
> Booting from floppy is not supported. The kernel has gotten pretty
> big...
> 
> Regards,
> Luciano Rocha
> 
>