On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:17:59AM +1000, O Plameras wrote: > Alexander Samad wrote: > >Hi > > > >Does any one have any experience in extracting the bootfloopy image from > >a dvd or cd, or might be able to suggest what tools to use ? > > > > > > First, Kernel 2.4.x will fit on one/two floppies whilst Kernel > 2.5.x/2.6.x will not. > > Second, you can make boot floppy without copying from dvd or cd. You can > if you really want to with lots of painful efforts. Just curious: why > would you > do that ? > > Third, tools to use are 'dd', 'mount -o loop ...', 'grub', 'lilo', and > similar commands. > > Then, check this out: > > http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwmbr.htm > http://www.trinux.org > > There is also 'Bootdisk-Howto' in http://www.tldp.org.
Hi not trying to make a bootable dvd or cd, looking at disassembling one. unfortunately mount doesn't mount the el toro floppy image, dd would help but I need to know the offset into the image > > Hope this helps. > > O Plameras > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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