[CentOS] Linux boot floppy to install over net

[Johnny Hughes]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 11:34 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote:
> On 1/3/06, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> > With all this going on, it seems to me there MUST be a floppy image
> > that will load the minimum shell (including PCMCIA drivers!) and all
> > over-the-net installs (HTTP, FTP, of NFS).
> >
> > That would really help on one old notebook I have.
> >
> > Oh, and of course this is for CentOS 4.2!
> 
> My understanding of this is that as of the 2.6 kernels, the kernels
> are too big to fit on a floppy.
> 
> I haven't tried it myself--just rephrasing something I picked up on fedora-list.

That is correct.  The kernel is too large to fit on a floppy.

There is a 6.0 GB USB pendrive image .. and a 4.8 GB boot.iso for
network installs here:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/images/

(substitute your arch for i386 if different)
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