[newbie] Bootnet.img problems

[Adam Willcox]

I know this is supposed to bea mandrake forum 
but I commonly see posts about Suse and other distributions. I'm currently 
using Mandrake 7.1 but not wanting to buy any more cd's but still wanting to 
upgrade I decided to attempt a network install of redhat. If anyone knows 
how to do a network install of mandrake please let me know. I cannot read 
cd-r's, so going the .iso route is out of the question.

Anyway, my problem is the bootimage is 1.40 mb 
large and anyone who's used a floppy knows that it's hard to get the theoritcal 
1.44 mb size out of it. Is there any way to get around this, has 
anyone else tried it?

Re: [newbie] Bootnet.img problems

[CB]

 Adam Willcox wrote:
 
 I know this is supposed to be a mandrake forum but I commonly see
 posts about Suse and other distributions.  I'm currently using
 Mandrake 7.1 but not wanting to buy any more cd's but still wanting to
 upgrade I decided to attempt a network install of redhat.  If anyone
 knows how to do a network install of mandrake please let me know.  I
 cannot read cd-r's, so going the .iso route is out of the question.
 
 Anyway, my problem is the bootimage is 1.40 mb large and anyone who's
 used a floppy knows that it's hard to get the theoritcal 1.44 mb size

I don't understand your question, but the procedure to make boot
floppies from the provided images for RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, and
FreeBSD are all the same:
  dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0
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