> I've got an old PC running the 1.02 Dachstein CD. It can't boot from the CD > so I use a floppy boot disk. Herein lies the problem. I am running IPSEC on > this machine and am just barely fitting the backups on the floppy. I'd like > to run a couple more applications on the PC but have no room to store the > configuration backups on the floppy. > > Is there a 1.68 Meg floppy image of the CD boot binary available? If not > how do I go about creating such a beast?
There isn't a 1.68 Meg image of the CD Boot disk available, but it's a minor tweak to turn a standard Dachstein disk into one (all packages are identical between the CD and floppy versions of Dachstein...only differences are boot options and media type). Simply edit syslinux.cfg, and set the PKGPATH parameter to include the CD-ROM (PKGPATH=/dev/cdrom:iso9660). Leave the BOOT= parameter as-is (should be set to 1680K floppy if you start with a Dachstein floppy image), and you're all set. Of course, you'll probably want to replace the standard "full" packages of etc, modules, etc. on the default Dachstein distribution with your existing partial backups rather than re-create them from scratch. As a bonus, your 1680K floppy will boot faster than the 1440K disk. Since there's more data on each track, it takes fewer revolutions of the floppy media to load the initial system image. > As always, thanks for the help. > > BTW. Have you had a chance to rebuild your network, or are your machines > still in the garage? I've got one or two systems back online, but not enough to do any real test networks :< Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
