Floppy booting Fedora Core

[Rick Stevens]

David Hoffman wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:39:59 -0500, Jogger <jogger at sayas.com> wrote:
> 
>>Since this appears very illogical, I obviously must be missing something.
> 
> 
> Like the archives?
> 
> Since FC2 was out, the kernel image is too large for a floppy. This is
> asked at least a few times each month on this list. Searching the
> archives would have provided an answer.

It's not Fedora that's the issue, it's the 2.6 kernel that's too big for
a floppy.  That's why the release notes tell you that you need to boot
from CD, DVD, hard drive, network or USB flash drive.
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