On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Ron Youvan 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.
>
> A rescue floppy for Slackware requires two 1.44's,
> so I would guess a very special tiny kernel would be needed.
Not "very special", just not a "kitchen-sink" kernel that comes with the
distros. Here's mine:
780K /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.29
> There are a few floppy and EPROM sized distros that should
> work from a floppy.
> Regular distro's need bash which is almost 629 K
Some rescue sets use busybox, which rolls lots of programs into one,
combining the common parts and leaving out some less-common options.
> Any reason to not try doing it with a rescue CD-ROM
I interpreted it as "there's no CD drive on that machine", but yeah, if the
machine will boot from CD, that's almost always better.
> or temporarily put the new drive in a working computer?
> Which is how I always do it.
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