[ale] Quick Fedora question

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 06:53 -0500, William Bagwell wrote:
> Back about Red Hat 7.1ish, you could put the boot loader on a floppy to keep 
> from mucking with your main loader. (I dual booted Mandrake and 98 SE back 
> then) Seem to recall that during the install you first told it to *not* 
> install a boot loader. Then later it would prompt you again, this time 
> offering a floppy as one of the choices of location.

> Is this still possible with current Fedora? Perhaps on a USB stick if floppies 
> have been depreciated. Any caveats or gotchas?

	Oh, this is very possible and actually pretty easy, but it is a
separate process.

	Now, I know this is more that what you are asking for, but you might
start here:

	How to Install Live Image to USB Flash Drive
	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo

	That will install an entire Fedora Live distro onto a USB key.  That
will install syslinux onto the mbr and into the FAT file system and the
live system as a squashfs on the key.  If you don't want to run the
whole blink'n system from the key, modify the syslinux.cfg file to
taste.  I just installed a Fedora 8 Live distro to an 8G key and the
whole thing only took about 700 Meg on the key (hey - the Live CD is a
CD, not a DVD).  It will fit comfortably on any 1G key and up.

	Alternatively, I have installed grub on USB drives with an ext2
bootable partition.  I don't have any shortcut How-To for that, though.

> -- 
> William

	Mike
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