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Re: Problems creating a boot floppy



Not an answer to your problem, but another way to do what you're trying to
do is to simply install lilo or grub on a floppy disk. You could then use
a kernel off the hard drive (like you would if it was installed on the
MBR.)

Ian Monroe
http://mlug.missouri.edu/~eean/

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Nick Dodd wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I've been having problems booting Debian from floppy. 
> 
> The reason I boot from floppy is that I have 2 hard disks on my PC:
> Windows lives on the first, and linux on the second, with my root 
> partition on  /dev/sdb1. 
> 
> I installed Debian from CD, and this created a boot floppy
> pretty straightforwardly, which has always worked. However, 
> I'd like to recompile the kernel and install it on a new
> floppy.
> 
[snip]



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