I'm about to start tinkering with Grub (tired of doing the 'root' and 'kernel'
command manually in "command mode" in an old "grub-installment" done by some
Fedora-thingy in the past) and would like a backup, since I may (i.e. will)
mess things up. (*)

Sec. 8.4 of the SVN has a nice snippet for making a bootable floppy with
grub on it. Now, the thing is that I don't have a floppy drive, but I do
have a dvd-writer-combo-solution-can-do-everything-unit.

Is there some easy way to do the same for a dvd? I have the necessary
tools, I think, like mkisofs and growisofs. Most of what I can find on
the net seems very focused on making a fully bootable "system" on the
dvd, though... I presume that I cannot just substitute 'hda' for 'fd0'
in the dd-commands, my drive being /dev/hda...

If it's not to complicated, maybe a nice ting to add to the book also?

J.O.

(*) Another thing is that I don't exactly know where that "old grub" is
stored, and I would like to delete some old partitions on older disks,
combining them and "raiding" them to make for some slower storage space...
Would be unfortunate if I accidentally removed the only way to boot the
system....
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