FC2 - anaconda - bootdisk creation

[Jim Cornette]

Carnal Ortega wrote:
> Phil,  how come I can boot fine with 1 floppy disk into my FC2 system? I 
> ran mkbootdisk after a fresh install of FC2 and that was all I needed to 
> do, just like with red hat's of the past. I'm booting into FC2 with the 
> floppy in the same way I would if grub/lilo were on the mbr so I don't 
> think I have a streamlined/rescue type kernel on that floppy. All the 
> modules that need to be loaded at boot time are being loaded. I'm 
> confused as to why people are saying this is not possible, what am I 
> missing in this discussion?
> 
> Ps. it's a 2mb floppy
> 
> 

This explains why you are able to make the boot disk.

I just tried what Jeff suggested and it created an image that was just a 
bit larger than a 1.44 floppy. I got the below. This is on an athlon laptop.

> rw-r--r--  1 root root 1474560 Jun 17 23:00 /tmp/myboot.iso

Jim