27 Jul
2013
27 Jul
'13
8:13 p.m.
On 7/27/2013 12:57 PM, James Freer wrote:
I've got them sitting there so i might as well use them... costs nothing. USB and SD cards are not for permanent data storage. 3.5 floppy aren't brilliant but that's an option for booting on.
the modern kernel and initramfs won't fit on a 1.44MB floppy, how could you boot off it?
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4045680 Jul 16 17:15 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16500723 Jul 27 10:39 /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64.img
(thats a 4MB kernel and 16MB initramfs)
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