On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 20:08 +0200, Zsolt Udvari wrote: > Have you seen this? > > http://blueflops.sourceforge.net/ > http://www.toms.net/rb/ > > So the answer is: yes, it is possible ;)
I tried to install Tom's Root Boot on a floppy within the last three weeks, and could not do it. The latest version will not fit on a 1.44MB-formatted floppy, so he attempts to format the disk to a larger capacity, and for whatever reason my drive refuses to cooperate. I also tried one of those systems that boots from a USB flash drive, but apparently that requires your BIOS to be able to make the flash drive bootable, which mine is too old to do. However, I found one system (whose name I unfortunately have forgotten) that allowed me to boot from a floppy disk and then from there boot the rest of the filesystem from USB after it loaded the appropriate USB drivers. Lately my preferred rescue method is to partition /dev/hda1 much larger than it needs to be for grub, like about 40MB, and install a minimal working kernel+shell+filesystem on /boot. Obviously this won't help if all of hda becomes corrupt or otherwise unbootable, but it makes it much easier to switch between different lfs builds while I'm experimenting or upgrading, and it's a big help when (not if, but when - it's inevitable) I screw up inittab and make the primary system unbootable. -- Peter B. Steiger Cheyenne, WY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally - A spam blocker that actually works. http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/4 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
