right, and most of the modern distros run kernels that wont fit on a floppy by default. dre On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 12:47, Hal Duston wrote: > On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 12:20, James Sissel wrote: > > Or maybe a better question is do we really need to compress the kernel > > anymore? With 80G hard drives the norm today do we really need to save > > space? > > Boot floppies are still limited to 1.44MB. > > -- > Hal