booting w/floppy to cd-rom

[drwebpat]

Ok I think I just need to be pointed in the right direction on this. I've found TONS of info on booting from floppies and what not, but I'm not sure that when I boot from a floppy to have it say "hey look at the cd-rom...everything is in there" Like I said I've been searching for awhile now and just need to be pointed in the right direction :)

Thanks,
Doc

[TC]

Using the floppy images from the distros will point to the cdrom on boot. For Debian see the following link:
http://www.newriders.com/debian/html/noframes/node1.html

Hope this helps

:)

[drwebpat]

Well how about for LRS? http://www.lrs-linux.org

I decided to give this a try and they do supply a boot disk in their download section. However it is in a .bz format and is bigger than 1.44M. The file inside that does not have an extention. Also there is no documentation for this, and if there were any it would probably be in german :)

Let me know your thoughts.

[drwebpat]

Just a follow up. I believe I have found the solution to my problem. I thought I'd post it here in case anyone else was interested in using LRS on an older machine.

to make a bootdisk :

gunzip -c bootdisk | dd of=/dev/fd0
(if fd0 is your floppy-drive)

This is for the bootdisk that LRS provides.