Re: Looking for more Debian packages

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Jianan Huang (<huangjianan1@hotmail.com>) wrote:

> 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. 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? I have looked at fdutils. It doesn't
> help.

You can use "dd" to make images of floppy disks. And you can also
install your bootloader in the MBR of drive C. Lilo and Grub can be
configured to load other operating systems, e.g. Windows, as well.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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