On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:58 am, many eyes noted that David E. Fox wrote: > > Define successful? > > Doing it without running out of disk space would be successful. Of course, > if it actually boots the right partition it would be even better.
Does both these. > > I've been able to do this in 9.0. LX and I hashed over this; it seems > that the kernels are SoBig :) now that there's not enough room on the > floopy for syslinux/grub (or lilo)/initrd and the kernel. > > > Boots the system with some problems identifying the CD ROM as an SCSI > > device with dialogue to change devices, asks does one want to run the > > configuration > > Have you done this with 9.2? No I don't as yet have a copy of 9.2 > > > I may not create a boot floppy the right way? This is also on a standard > > kernel. 2.4.21-0.13mdk > > Hmm. How big was that? 1.3mb > > 1337954 Aug 25 08:47 vmlinuz-2.4.22-1mdk > > > Format floppy to DOS filesystem > > Place into the floppy drive but do not mount > > Back in the "old days": > > format floppy > cp /boot/zImage /dev/fd0 > rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hdX > > That's from memory, and I may have the parameters reversed. It was always > a trick remembering the order for rdev. The intent is to simply ocpy the > kernel onto a good floppy and then rdev it -- this sets the root device, > which you'd fill in with wherever your root happened to be. > > If we go back to that mode, at least the kernel will fit on the floppy > by itself. If not, it's time to figure out why the kernels in 9.x are > SoBig ;). In particular, lots of stuff is modularized so they're not in > the monolithic kernel image. > > Otherwise, hack drakboot to make disks with more sectors per track > than the "default" DOS format. After all, we aren't running DOS, so why > stick with 1.44mb floppies if you can tweak the format for 1.6 meg? I have done this with a winblows program and still have some disks like this, up to 1.72mb which was very handy at times. I don't know how to achieve this with Mandrake, though have to admit that I have never looked into it either I seem to just write to CD now. In the old days [about 18 months ago] of 8mb RAM and 830mb hard drive it all went onto floppy. > > > Charlie > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > David E. Fox Thanks for letting me > [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- I am not afraid of storms, because I am learning to sail my ship. Louise May Alcot. This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1Beta
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