Re: [SLUG] linux floppy disk

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Sep 15 2005 - 17:30:35 EDT


On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, William Coulter wrote:

> I have a question about floppy versions of linux. Does anybody know how
> to make one with the abillity to format hard drives. For example, in the
> windows world you can create a boot floppy, and on it has fdisk. My
> problem with using a windows boot floppy to format linux partitions is
> that sometimes it doesn't work the way I want it to.

So you want to boot from a floppy and then run fdisk? Any rescue floppy (to
pull one from my nether regions, Tom's Root-Boot aka tomsrtbt) should do
that no problem.

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