Re: debian distro on a floppy
At Tuesday, 30 December 2003, you wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:17:28AM -0500, Debian User wrote:
>> years ago, when trying to fix a hdd problem, i came across floppy
>> images that had all things necessary to run from a floppy. my hope
>> is i can move the linux drive to /ved/hda, boot/run w/ one of these
>> images, change lilo.conf to reflect /dev/hda (right now, that disk
>> reflects /dev/hdc ... kinda useless), run lilo, and reboot. after
>> this, i will recreate a boot disk and hopefully not mess up the root
>> filesyetem information.
>
>This is how Jan does it: Boot off one of one of the Debian install
CDs,
>go for a shell, mount the Linux partition, do ``chroot <Linux partition
>mountpoint>''. Voila, you have your system as if booted single-user.
>
>The diskette you ask for is on these CDs, or:
>
>Bootdisk:
>ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/images-
>1.44/rescue.bin
>Rootdisk--you'll be asked to insert this during the boot process:
>ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/images-
>1.44/root.bin
>To get it on the diskette under the crippled OS you've mentioned:
>ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/tools/rawrite1.zip
>Which to unzip:
>ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/tools/unz512x3.exe
>
this all worked out very nicely ... thanks for your assistance!
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