At 10:55 PM 4/18/2005, Collins Richey wrote: >On 4/18/05, Leonard Isham <leonard.isham at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > My understanding is that the kernel and initrd are too big to fit on a > > floppy anymore. > > > >Yes, that's the cold hard truth. > >If you need to do maintenance to a system that has a usable kernel and >initrd, perhaps you could create a grub boot floppy. The wave of the >future is boot from CDROM. A techie at a company I consult for, gave me a boot diskette that is a smart boot manager and can force a boot from the CD even though the CD is not bootable. Worked like a charm. I will get more info on this and post it here. Perhaps it could be added to the FAQ....