Piotr Kopszak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> boldly proposed:
> Actually I got a question which touches on the problem of choosing THE RIGHT OS. I
> would like to prepare a bootable floppy (floppies)
> which would contain mkisofs and cdrecord (and unfortunately also an operating
> system) that would make it possible to boot a
> computer with it, plug my HP 7200 CD-Writer into the printer port and be able to
> record whatever I want from the hard discs
> installed in that system (for a start). Maybe someone has already done something
> like this.
The simple solution is to build a bootable CD and a boot floppy in
case the system doesn't boot from CD. But the system might not have a
CD, so you could boot floppy and read a CD in your CD-R to finish the
boot, using a ram disk. If you really want to be paranoid, the system
might not have enough RAM, so you get a cheap parallel port ZIP drive,
which will coexist with your CD-R, and use that for the root file
system.
Or probably you could format a floppy to 1680K and make a boot/root
pair which would do what you need. You can also put enough modules on
the boot to load SCSI drivers if the system needs them. See the
wonderful "yard" tool for generating these recovery systems.
There! You have a whole handful of ways to attack the problem.
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-bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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