RE: [SLUG] linux floppy disk

From: William Coulter (wrcoulter30@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Sep 16 2005 - 17:39:53 EDT


Yes. That is it.
William

--- Ken Elliott <kelliott4@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> >> 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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