Re: boot floppy with recent Knoppix
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:22:15PM +0200, Jody Noury wrote:
> An user from french forum would like to boot Knoppix from HD with
> floppies. Its laptop has not any CD-rom drive.
>
> I have tried to find a "simple" way to create boot floppy(ies) from
> win32 whitout signifiant result.
>
> I believed that MkImage-ct.exe or mkimg-de.exe were in /KNOPPIX folder
> on CD-Rom for this purpose but it seems It helps making a persistant
> folder image.
mkimg creates, as you said, a persistent Knoppix harddrive image for
storing data under Knoppix, on a windows partition. This is not a
bootdisk, though.
Since the kernel does no longer fit on a single floppy, a bootfloppy is
no longer easy to create. I will try to add something like a iso-grub
bootfloppy, but this is more a long-term plan.
> Could someone give us some pointer in order to perform such a rare need ?
Currently, only the ISO-enabled version of grub, with a chain bootloader
for loading boot/isolinux/linux and boot/isolinux/minirt.gz from the CD.
There is no ready-made floppy available for this yet, though. :-(
With kind regards
-Klaus Knopper
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