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sonix

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Posted: Sep. 08 2004,09:59

hi guys, another DSL noob here.. ^_^ i just want to know if how do i create a floppy boot disk since i want to run/install DSL on my old laptop computer but i can't configure it to boot from the CD.. if possible, please make the instructions step by step.. any help will be greatly appreciated thanks!!

muntaza

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Posted: Sep. 08 2004,14:40

hallo, I'm from Indonesia

dd if=/{your mount cdrom}/boot.img of=/dev/fd0
example
dd if=/mnt/cdrom/boot.img of=/dev/fd0

setting your bios to boot from floppy

thanks

walnut

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Posted: Oct. 02 2004,04:38

that great infor there, but what if you are running windows??

here is how to do it under windows

Download rawrite (search google)
and use it to write the boot.img to a floppy disk

but where is the "boot.img" file located in DSL 0.8.1, i have used winRAR to unzip all the files to my HDD, but cant find the "boot.img" to make a floppy to boot the OS from, it was there in version 0.6.2 (the last one i was running) and i need it so that i can run DSL

help please
-walnut

mikshaw

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Posted: Oct. 02 2004,05:06

The image is not on the CD.
You can download it from the same place you got the DSL iso
http://damnsmalllinux.org/download.html
boot-0.8.0.img

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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

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