Re: last try: still trying to make an emergency rescue floppy
I believe there is a mkboot command in Debian that
will make a boot floppy for you.
--- vanillicat <vanilli@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> 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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