FC2 floppy boot diskette

[rune]

sorry, if this seems like a newbie questions to you guys but:

how can i make a bootable floppy disk to start FC2, makebootdisk doesn't seem to be available anymore, and the kernel files are pretty big for fc2, so what other choices are there for booting without grub?

i am worried as one day i might have to delete grub while fixing a windows partition

thanks

[ghaefb]

You can use FC2 CD1 and at boot prompt type: linux rescue - in this rescue mode you can do the grub fixing :)

[ilja]

Or you can download the rescue cd and write it (~79MB)

[tux2furious]

FC2 floppy boot diskette

How to make one:
http://fedoraguide.org/fc2/fc2beginnersguide.html#makebootdiskette

[rune]

oh ic, thanks for the info :)

[yur1022]

I could not make a boot floopy disk ... as shown in the following:

[root@...]# /sbin/mkbootdisk `uname -r`
Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost.
Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort:
cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.g18056/initrd.img': No space left on device
cat: write error: No space left on device
cat: write error: No space left on device
20+0 records in
20+0 records out

Instead, I always make a boot CD. As root,

[root@...]# /sbin/mkbootdisk --device bootcd.iso --iso `uname -r`

bootcd.iso is created in the current folder. Then, using K3b, burn a CDR (or CDRW) of bootcd.iso. (When burning CDRW, be sure to erase it first, if you are re-using it.)

yur

[tux2furious]

that's weird. you are the second person that told me can't work. it worked perfectly fine on my two machines.

just curious, what addition things that you install for your fedora?

[yur1022]

Nothing I added. After the vanilla installation of FC, I tried to create a boot floppy, but
failed ... for both FC1 and FC2.

yur