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mr.yuke

10-02-2003, 10:50 AM

Hello.
I would like to create a bootable floppy disk (or cd) so I can boot any computer in to Linux with the network support and Parallel or usb (or even IDE) cd burner support. Would appreciate any input on where to even start learning about that.
Thanks

je_fro

10-02-2003, 11:24 AM

Try knoppix.

o0zi

10-02-2003, 03:10 PM

Or Morphix, or Slackware Live, or SuSe Live-Eval, or the Gentoo LiveCD...

mdwatts

10-02-2003, 04:16 PM

http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ is quite good.

Actually just today I finished building a working boot cd based on the Win98 SE bootdisk that loads the Novell network drivers, ethernet drivers for work, displays a dos menu with Partition Magic 7 and Drive Image 5, allows you to log into Novell and then depending if you select PM or DI, loads them into a ramdisk and then executes. Built it all on Linux. :cool: