Kickstart bootdisk

[Greg Morgan]

Jesse Keating wrote:
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> On Thursday 12 August 2004 07:19, David Goss wrote:
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>>I am having a great deal of trouble trying to figure out how to make a
>>boot floppy for a Core 2 install. Everything that I have tried has
>>either given me an image to big for a floppy ( all the images on the
>>Core 2 disks ) or a message that the boot to floppy option has been
>>disabled in Core 2 ( mkbootdisk /dev/fd0 `uname -r`). What have I
>>missed???¿¿¿
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> Bootfloppies don't work w/ FC2.  The kernel is far far too big.  However 
> there are boot images for USB fobs, for zip disks, for flash media, etc 
> etc...  but not floppy.
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You may want to become familiar with some of the other anaconda install 
methods because of kernel size issue that Jesse pointed out.  If you are 
upgrading a system you can use a grub entry like so
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg05948.html
All you have to do is have an NFS, ftp, or html server available with 
the ISOs.  If you have a partition on the same computer that will not be 
formatted during install, then you can place the ISOs there.  Anaconda 
will mount each ISO as required.  It's so nice.  You can startup an 
install and do something else...like go to sleep and reboot in the morning!

Greg Morgan