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Re: using lilo to boot from floppy image?



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

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