Make a boot floppy

Lorenzo Sandini (Sonera) lorenzo.sandini at pp.inet.fi
Sat Dec 31 14:16:56 UTC 2005



Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 20:16 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
>   
>> You can't.  The kernel is too large for a floppy.
>>     
>
> But you can make a GRUB boot disk (google for this, someone will explain
> how to do this better than I could).  This contains enough to boot from
> a drive in most circumstances.
>
> For cases where you're trying to recover a system that's failed, the
> rescue disc is probably what you want (the smaller Fedora ISO file).
>   
This is what I meant, sorry for asking in a confusing way. The GRUB boot 
disk.  :)

Lorenzo




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