Re: fedora install using floppy

From: Michael A. Peters (mpeters_at_mac.com)
Date: 04/30/05

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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:44:21 -0700

    On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 09:13 -0700, bruce wrote:
    > hi...
    >
    > still struggling with this issue..
    >
    > for those new to the problems, we have a number of systems that only have
    > floppies.. we need to be able to install FC3 on the systems. we have the FC3
    > iso files on a http/ftp server on the network. our need is to somehow come
    > up with a floppy that will allow us to insert the floppy, load any required
    > drivers, and allow us to start the Fedora installation process.

    kernel is too big to fit on a floppy unfortunately.
    If you can boot from a usb key, that will work though.

    I suppose it might be possible to build a custom kernel that is small
    enough and then build a custom fc3 install set that uses that kernel,
    but I don't know if that is possible, or worth the effort. 

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