[syslinux] Bootable Floppy w/ Networking & Shell?

[Jason Gerfen]

I realize this is probably the wrong list but since some of the 
principals this list deals with are similar in nature I figured it 
could't hurt.

What I am looking to do:
Provide a solution to either boot from a floppy disk, establish a 
network connection, give user the ability to run utilities such as fdisk 
and dd. as well as provide the same solution as a PXE bootable image.

My question:
Does anyone on this list have a solution in place such as this, or 
perhaps a method (the simpiler the better) to create a bootable floppy 
with these three requirements?  I have been looking around and so far I 
have found solutions which require me to build a stipped down kernel 
with specific network card support, creating the filesystem and 
installing the kernel and any utils I need.  Is there any solution 
anyone knows of which is less cubersome?

TIA

-- 
Jason Gerfen

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