Re: Looking for more Debian packages
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"Jianan Huang" <huangjianan1@hotmail.com> writes:
> 1) I read about disk boot problem in the mail list. Right now I boot
> from a floppy. My machine BIOS can only boot from the C drive or the
> floppy. I use D drive for my Linux.
Note that you can install a boot loader (e.g., LILO or GRUB) into the
MBR of the "C drive" (likely /dev/hda), and then you can boot your
choice of operating system without affecting what's actually installed
on either drive.
> If my floppy fails to boot, I may have to re-build a whole new
> system. It would be wise to have an image copy of the whole floppy
> as a backup. Is there a utility to create a binary image of a Linux
> floppy?
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img # make the image
dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 # make a new floppy
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/fd1 # copy disks, given two floppy drives
> 2) I have read about Linux BIOS. I believe BIOS is another area of
> software that has to open up. Does Debian have one, and come with
> source code too?
Not particularly, but I also haven't heard of huge demand for one.
Linux (I think like most other "modern" operating systems) mostly
ignores the BIOS, with a couple of exceptions for things like APM.
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David Maze dmaze@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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