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No floppy boot support

No floppy boot support

Posted Jul 17, 2003 22:10 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
In reply to: No floppy boot support by dw
Parent article: The 2.5 "what to expect" document, v0.42

Not only that, but it seems that the kernel is getting too big to fit on a floppy a lot of the time anyway. Perhaps using isolinux and putting it on a CD-RW would be an alternative? I've found it pretty easy to test out Slackware boot CDs this way.


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