Re: Install: How to make boot floppy that's really an image?

["andrew cooke" <andrew@acooke.org>]

A much simpler solution is to say yes to making the system bootable, at
which point you're give the option of installing in /boot rather than the
mbr.  after doing that, you can grab the required info from that partition
and configure windows correctly.

Eventually this will be described at
http://www.acooke.org/andrew/writing/x31.html

Cheers,
Andrew

andrew cooke said:

>
> Hi,
>
> How do I jiggle things (via the second console) so that when the installer
> writes a boot floppy, it actually writes to an image?
>
> I have tried making an image and mounting it via loopback, but the
> installer gives the error "dbootstrap[16]: error getting floppy geometry
> from /dev/fd0".  is there some way I can specify this in the image?
>
> The reason I ask is that I am in the middle of a network install to an IBM
> X31 laptop.  The MBR already has a windows installer that I don't want to
> lose and the laptop has no disk drive (neither floppy nor CD).
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
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