On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:52:19PM -0400, Jeremy Portzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 15:34, Rob Lockhart wrote: > > > > > Talking about Fedora Core 2, it is impossible to believe that there is > > no boot floppy available. > > I don't understand why that's impossible to believe. The 2.6 kernel > simply is too big to fit on a floppy and still have room for any > user-land code. A floppy is only 1.44 MB, that's a very small amount > compared to the complexity of the 2.6 kernel. > > Fedora Core 2 and the 2.6 kernel are designed for modern hardware; it's > not unexpected to find out that you'd have problems with dinosaurs. > Either work around the problems or use an older distribution that was > designed for that hardware.
It does beg the question of why the _Install_ need run on the 2.6 kernel even if the distribution itself does. Maybe I'm missing the point, but I've installed Debian with a 2.4 kernel from a boot disk running 2.2 with success in the past. I will quickly cede that there will be certain hardware that will be unsupported by an older kernel and thus there are _advantages_ to using the 2.6 kernel on the installation media. David
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