Eben King wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Joe Brandt wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 21:06, wchast@utilpart.com wrote:
>>> I have a floppy disk based system that I would like to put on
>>> either a small hard drive or CF card.
>>>
>>> It is a combination firewall and router. Is there a way to moving
>>> this bootable floppy image to either a HD or CF card so I can
>>> have the larger space and yet conserve all of the stuff on the
>>> floppy in the same layout.
>>>
>>> My second reason is to get something that will boot faster than the
>>> floppy.
>>>
>>> If anyone is interested I can send you the image that I have.
>>>
>>> It uses busybox for the commands and I think the kernel is 2.0
>>> or 2.2.
>>
>> My swag (silly wild a--ed guess) would be dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/boot
>
> That would make a 1.44MB filesystem on the CF card/HD. Also, floppies
> don't (usually?) have partitions; CF cards/HDs usually do. My best
> guess is
>
> { cd /mnt/floppy && tar cf - . ; } | { cd /mnt/hda1 && tar xvpsf - ; }
> lilo -r /mnt/hda1 -b /dev/hda
>
> Adjust as needed. You'll probably need an IDE CF reader, unless your
> motherboard can boot from USB. Also, arrange to put the router's /
> on a RAMdisk and mount the CF ro. http://ide-cf.info-for.us/mtbf.html
Do you want me to send you the image file so you can take a look
at it?
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