>> I am looking for a floppy or floppys that I can use like a windows boot
floppy.
That's the part that's confusing everyone. It implies that you want to boot
the OS. Do you mean you want to boot ONLY to create partitions?
Ken Elliott
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of William Coulter
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:42 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] linux floppy disk
No, I must not be have phrased the question correctly. I am looking for a
floppy or floppys that I can use like a windows boot floppy. I know that I
can use a rescue cd when a system goes down but I am not wanting to do that
nor asked that question. That is what everybody seems to assume that is the
question. I would like a way to set up partitions before I install an os.
I want a way to delete existing partitons and then recreate them the way I
want to before I install. This way I have more control on how and where or
what os is on what partition.
William
> A rescue floppy for Slackware requires two 1.44's, so I would guess
> a very special tiny kernel would be needed.
> 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 so recompiling a
> regular distro's kernel with everything turned off but "floppy"
> probably won't fit.
>
> Any reason to not try doing it with a rescue CD-ROM or temporarily
> put the new drive in a working computer?
> Which is how I always do it.
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