[WBEL-users] Installation question

Will Senn will_senn@comcast.net
Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:08:48 -0500


tb,

Well, yeah - William is correct - the kernel aint goin' on a floppy. A 
grub floppy's the way to go, so long as you know how to specify the 
kernel and initrd (can be painful the first try).

will


William Hooper wrote:

>kudzo127234 said:
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>>Lately I have run into some distributions
>>which won't make a boot floppy. The
>>image needed is too large.
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>Most of the 2.6 kernels are too large.  I haven't tried it, but I would
>think a GRUB boot floppy would get around it (boot to the kernel on the
>HD).  Another option would be and isolinux boot CD.
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