[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux boot floppy -- making it without windows or dos

[Richard Geoffrion]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter A. Koren" <p.koren at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Discuss NTLUG" <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 1:39 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Linux boot floppy -- making it without windows or
dos


> I've got a problem. I just bought the Mandrake 10.1 powerpack set and
> want to upgrade. But my computer has a bug and will not boot off of the
> CDROM because of some error, probably a faulty BIOS, even thought I set
> the BIOS to try the CDROM first. So I am stuck with using a floppy disk
> to boot. I have been doing this for years on my ABIT BP6 based system

I made a few partitions using Windows fdisk and formated the one slated for
'swap' as a dos partition.  I then used loadlin to boot the linux kernel and
access setup.

After I was past the crucial point, I went back and mkswap'ed my no longer
needed dos loadlin partition.

It was the long way around the ben...but then if your CD would boot...you'd
already be there. :)

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