This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft said: > also sprach Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net> [2002.10.24.2359 +0200]: > > Can you scp the file onto the box, and then point lilo or grub to the > > file? That's the only obvious thing I can think of, if you don't want > > to throw in a floppy drive (although they are only US $5 or $10 these > > days . . .) 8^). > > It's only 2 inches high and a rack server with no floppy controller. > i have the image of the floppy on the machine and tried pointing lilo > to it, but it complains that the kernel is too big and exits due to > this FATAL error... bzip it? Untested, untried, usual warnings . . . but I can't see why a boot floppy image wouldn't be able to work. Isn't the standard bzImage just a bzipped kernel image? Steve -- To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau, in "Walden"
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