[ale] Boot "loader" floppy (not image / rescue) with RedHat 7.2 ?

[Stephan Uphoff]

Take a look at grub.
You can boot grub from the floppy.
Grub understands hard disks and file systems and can load
and start your kernel from your hard disk.
No need to stuff the kernel on a floppy.

William Bagwell wrote:
> Taking an on-line class that will use RedHat, and I'm trying to avoid the 
> hassles of triple booting. During a Mandrake install it offers to put the 
> loader on a floppy. This works great for playing with new versions, keeping 
> them (mostly) separate, and the original loader safe from being filled with 
> garbage.
> 
> All I'm finding with Google are traditional disks, and tutorials about 
> cramming 1.7 MB on a 1.44 MB floppy. The book for the class seems geared 
> towards first time (dual boot with Doze) installs, and goes into great detail 
> on making one from within Windows, to force an install when your BIOS won't 
> let you. Again, not what I need.  
> 
> Does RH 7.2 give the same choice?  If not, is there an easy way to move it 
> afterwards?  Am I just searching for the wrong thing... 
> 
> Guess I could unplug my main drive, do an install and find out. Much easer to 
> ask here first and avoid them killer dust bunnies:)
> -- 
> William
> 
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