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Re: [SPAM] Re: using lilo to boot from floppy image?



why did you prefix the subject with [SPAM] ?

also sprach Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> [2002.10.25.0016 +0200]:
> 1) Burn CD-ROM with boot floppy image (Use 2.88 if you can) and boot from CD

there is no CD-ROM or floppy in this machine.

> 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.

not an option. it's a server running Linux and it can't change...

> 3) If you have harddisk, remove it to more accessible machine and
>   install Linux.

Linux is installed. I need to boot a memory tester that uses a DOS
boot disk

> 
> I wonder how did you do dd and where the file image is.

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/boot/docmem.img bs=1k

right now, the image is in /boot/docmem.img


> HDD?  What OS do you have working on the machine...

yes, HDD. it's a Debian Linux system.

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