Re: bootdisks for Fedora Core 2?

From: Lenard (lenard_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 20:53:39 GMT

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 19:47:55 +0000, Rich Webb wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 18:59:36 +0200, "Mirco Novena" <mirco9@gmx.net>
> wrote:
>
>>hello
>>
>>I've just downloaded the *.iso images from Fedora Core 2 and installed
>>it on my desktop. perfect!
>>I have an old notebook, too, and I want to install it there too.
>>unfortunately I haven't a CD-Rom.
>>
>>Are there bootdisks for Fedora Core 2? Can I take the bootdisks for RH9?
>>(implausibly?)
>
> user@foo.bar$ man mkbootdisk
>
> user@foo.bar$ su
>
> root@foo.bar# /sbin/mkbootdisk `uname -r`

Fell free to ignore this advise for two reasons....

1. It will not work with a FC2 kernel.. the resulting kernel image and
associated files will not fit on a standard 1.44M floppy

2. The resulting (bad) floppy boot disk is not an Installation floppy boot
disk and would fail to boot the system you want to install FC2 to. 

-- 
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we would have been dead a long time ago." M$ Senior VP Bob Muglia '96

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