Thoughts on floppy disks

[Sam Varshavchik]

Timothy Murphy writes:

> I was recently following the advice in the Fedora-13 Installation Guide
> to setup a pxeboot server,
> and it recommended that one should read the syslinux documentation
> in /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.84/syslinux.txt .
> (Actually, the Guide says syslinux.doc , but that seems to be a typo.)
> 
> In any case, this document, which is dated 1994-2009,
> seems to be entirely concerned with "CREATING A BOOTABLE LINUX FLOPPY".

The Fedora guide should probably tell people to read pxelinux.txt instead of 
syslinux.txt.

When I had to figure out how to set up a pxeboot, I started reading 
pxelinux.txt, and its contents were sufficient enough for me to figure out 
how to get pxeboot set up. No floppy was required.

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