Boot disk creation - too large for floppy

Curt Wilson curtw at pso.siu.edu
Tue Dec 9 16:45:14 UTC 2003


Just installed FC for the first time a few days ago. Tried to make a boot 
disk at installation time, received error about too much data for a single 
floppy. I'm using an SMP kernel on this box, maybe if I tried using the 
non-SMP kernel it would work..although it's not much smaller (smp is 1.3 
MB, non-smp 1.2 MB). Anyone know how to work around this. I've never had 
this issue in any other RH distro.  Maybe I could make an ISO for CD boot 
instead, but I'd like to get the floppy option to work as I'm building a 
system that cannot boot from CD (it's an older box and we have limited 
resources). Any ideas appreciate on or off-list.


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Curt Wilson
SIUC PSO LAN Administrator
618-453-1344
GSEC, GCFW





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