floopy boot disk on FC3

santiago79830 · 03-05-2005, 12:55 PM

As several others seem to have learned, when one tries to use the mkbootdisk command on fc3, the resulting image is bigger than a 1.44 meg floppy. Is there some sort of work-around which lets us build a boot floppy for FC3?

I'm considering building a boot cd, but it seems rather anemic to have a command which is intended to build a boot floppy, yet it doesn't seem to be possible.

jailbait · 03-05-2005, 01:10 PM

"As several others seem to have learned, when one tries to use the mkbootdisk command on fc3, the resulting image is bigger than a 1.44 meg floppy. Is there some sort of work-around which lets us build a boot floppy for FC3?"

Here is an explanation on how to make a boot floppy which does not need a kernel on the boot floppy. Thus the files will easily fit on the boot floppy.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO-8.html

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Steve Stites

santiago79830 · 03-06-2005, 10:04 AM

Many thanks! That's the kind of info I needed. I will try this.

sandgroper · 03-07-2005, 10:06 AM

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Originally posted by santiago79830
As several others seem to have learned, when one tries to use the mkbootdisk command on fc3, the resulting image is bigger than a 1.44 meg floppy. Is there some sort of work-around which lets us build a boot floppy for FC3?

I'm considering building a boot cd, but it seems rather anemic to have a command which is intended to build a boot floppy, yet it doesn't seem to be possible.

The easiest way of making a boot disk , particulary if you have a /boot partition is to burn a copy of the /boot directory to CD.

I am running a duel boot system with FC3 and Windows 98 and I have burned a copy of the /boot partition onto a 185 Mb mini CD and it works great for both FC3 and Win98.

Ths size of my /boot partition files for the CD is 3Mb .