Re: using lilo to boot from floppy image?
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:37:22AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote:
> I have a machine without a floppy, but a 1.4 Mb floppy image I created
> with dd. Is there any way to make lilo (or grub) boot that so that
> I don't need a floppy drive?
few methods..
1) Burn CD-ROM with boot floppy image (Use 2.88 if you can) and boot from CD
2) Boot MS-DOS and use syslinux or loadlin.
Floppy image is just a MS-DOS FAT system with syslinux.
Mount it on Linux and copy it to MS-DOS partition.
3) If you have harddisk, remove it to more accessible machine and
install Linux.
I wonder how did you do dd and where the file image is. Do you have CD?
HDD? What OS do you have working on the machine...
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