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lotech
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:52 am Post subject: Boot floppy |
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Hi there,
How do I create a boot floppy for USB with 2.6 kernel. |
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roberts
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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Location: OC CA USA
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Kernel 2.6 is huge. It alone will not fit on a floppy!
The complete boot image is 2.4MB.
Following along the lines of Koppix proper, their fourms suggest to try SBM. Smart Boot Manager. This would require having both a floppy and a cdrom in the target machine. And only serves those machines that cannot boot from a cdrom. |
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lotech
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| Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:46 am Post subject: |
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| This may sounds silly but how about split the image into 2 floppy disk and combine in memory ? there are far more PC can not boot from usb than boot from cdrom. |
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doobit
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[quote="lotech"]This may sounds silly but how about split the image into 2 floppy disk and combine in memory ? there are far more PC can not boot from usb than boot from cdrom.[/quote]
Seems you are missing the point of the distribution. Robert can correct me if I'm wrong, but if you can't boot from USB or CDROM, then your computer is probably a candidate for the actual DSL which uses a Linux 2.4 based kernel. DSL-N uses the more modern kernel (2.6) which has less legacy (older computer) support.
My non-legacy computer, for example, does not even have a floppy drive. |
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