Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 test1

csm at Lunar-Linux.org csm at Lunar-Linux.org
Wed Jan 21 20:08:57 UTC 2004


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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jeremy Katz spewed into the bitstream:

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

So what is left unsaid is that since the kernel image *is* too large for a
floppy then a rescue situation would require CD#1 or boot.iso plus a
network install point.

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