Hi, Bug report to boot-floppies with patch is what it takes.
Also see below for my coment. On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:16:31AM -0800, Robin Rowe wrote: > Hi. This is my first attempt at contributing to Debian docs, so please > bear with me for not knowing the procedure. > > I recently created an open source Linux boot diskette Windows utility > called Bootset, to address some inconveniences in NTRawrite. While > working on that I noticed that section 4.3.2 in the Debian docs is > really out of date, and doesn't point to the comprehensive list of > rawrite-like programs maintained at the FreeDOS site (of which I have > no affiliation). Thank you. > I've updated the 4.3.2 section to be more modern. If there are no > objections the HTML below should replace 4.3.2 in this document: If some of the URL become more permanent one, I will create patch and file a bug. > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html > > <HR ALIGN=LEFT><A > NAME="s4.3.2"></A></P> > > <H3>4.3.2 Writing Disk Images From Windows, DOS, or OS/2</H3> > > <P>If you have access to an i386 machine, you can use <A > HREF="http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/rawrite/readme.html";>Rawrite > and related programs</A> to copy disk images to floppies.</P> Can you tailk to ntrawrite.sourceforge.net folks (Blake) to release your compiled version at their FTP? SF.FTP are fast. > <P>Newer programs such as <A > HREF="http://ntrawrite.sourceforge.net/";>NTRawrite</A> > work in Windows NT/2k/XP, but many older programs will only work > from DOS or with Windows 9x booted into DOS. Most of the programs > create one disk at a time from the command line, which can be > inconvenient, although some offer a GUI. <A > HREF="http://www.objectdesigngroup.com/bootset/";>Bootset</A> > creates a boot diskette set from a list of diskette image files > in a text file.</P> Do you have binary for bootset? URL? > <P><HR ALIGN=LEFT> -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract
