last try: still trying to make an emergency rescue floppy

[vanillicat <vanilli@nycap.rr.com>]

I'm making a last attempt to see if anybody knows the answer to my
query, the link to which is:


http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200206/msg04745.html

I'm guessing I sent my query at a bad time.

I'll reprint the text of my question here as well.  I really don't feel
comfortable running my system without a means to access it if LILO fails
me.  Thanks in advance!

original text as follows:

Hello list,

I'm trying to make an emergency rescue floppy that will be capable of
booting my system in the event something happens when booting from the
MBR.  The idea is to get the same floppy that the installer asks if you
want to create during the installation, as an alternate way of booting
into Debian.

My searches turned up the boot-floppies package, but trying to apt-get
it turned up the following error:

Package boot-floppies has no available version, but exists in the
database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package boot-floppies has no installation candidate

I've also gotten a recommendation to use mindi, but I wasn't sure if
this was the best package to use.  I don't need to create a special
floppy, just one that'll boot my system the same as if it were booting
from the hard drive.  Is there a replacement for boot-floppies that I
should be using?  Thanks!


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