my e-mail to request opportunity to post: Making Boot Floppy

Ricky Boone whiplash at planetfurry.com
Sun Nov 23 05:18:10 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 15:33, David Rangel wrote:
> I installed fedora on an Intel PC.  At
> the end of the installation, when prompted
> to make a boot disk, I received an error
> indicating that the install system was
> unable to create sucha disk because the
> number of modules required to boot the 
> machine made it impossible to fit the
> boot files on the 1.44Mb floppy.
> How does one make a boot floppy in such cases?
> How do I boot into my system now if there
> is a problem with the MBR?
> Thank you for any input.

You should be able to use the Rescue Mode on the first CD if you can
boot from it.  That's what I use since I tend to build my systems
without a floppy drive.

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Ricky Boone <whiplash at planetfurry.com>
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