The future of Diskette bootstraps

Guy Fraser guy at incentre.net
Mon May 17 21:55:08 UTC 2004


david wrote:

> One of my systems does not support CD-ROM boostrap.  FC1 provided a 
> bootstrap diskette which solved the problem, and let me install from 
> the network or from CDROM, both of which worked for me.
>
> Is this capability going to be maintained in future version of Fedora?
>
> If not, is there some option that would work?
>
> David Kurn

I would presume that boot floppies should be around for a little 
while longer but floppies are too small to be used much longer.

I have been noticing more and more computers being sold that don't 
come with floppy drives anymore. I'm not just talking about Mac's 
either. We have a bunch of little machines we use for single 
purpose servers, and they don't come with a floppy or CD, so we 
hookup a CD to get the install started and do a network install.

Good luck.





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