On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 04:46:27PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/4/07, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > >On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:39:57AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > > >> Is there an option I can make a "boot CD" like the boot floppy option > >> present in RedHat/Fedora systems towards the end of installation? > > > >You can use the netinst CD as a rescue disk. Just boot with option > >'rescue' or 'rescuegui'. > > > >Regards, > >Andrei > > Well I want a substitute for the "boot floppy" that used to boot the > system in the days gone by. Even a 1.44 MB floppy was able to boot a > normal debian system .... I think I did it once on a potato 2.2 system > and it would happily boot off the floppy in to the normal debian and > even X worked well. > > Is that not possible with the netinstall? Where's that boot floppy option > now? you can install grub on a floppy and use that. A
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