[WBEL-users] Floppy boot?

[Ed]

Paul Pianta wrote:
> david wrote:
> 
>> I am considering a jump to Whitebox, being a bit afraid of the pace of 
>> Fedora.  I would be grateful if someone could answer these questions:
>>
>> 1)  Has anyone performed a switch (I am reluctant to call it an 
>> upgrade or downgrade) from Fedora Core One to Whitebox?  If so, are 
>> there any huge gotchas?
>>
>> 2)  FC1 had a floppy boot.  FC2 does not.  I can't seem to find one in 
>> the WB binaries.  Does such exist?  [Background:  I have an old 
>> computer without a cdrom bootstrap capability].
>>
>> 3)  Which version of Apache web server is included?
>>
>> Much thanks
>>
>> David
>>
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> Hi David,
> 
> Looking at my liberation-respin1-binary-i386-1.iso loop-mounted I can 
> see that there is a file called 'bootdisk.img' in the images directory. 
> If this is like any previous redhat released isos - I would say that is 
> the image you can use with 'dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0' to get a 
> bootable floppy ...

That's the one I used.  It works.  Also bootnet.img is handy for network 
installs.  You can find the version of apache in the package lists. 
It's 2.0.46.

> 
> Hope that helps
> 
> pantz
>