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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