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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

Steven explained recently how to boot BL3 on HD from a DOS boot disk.  Can 
the same be done for BL1, i. e., not have a DOS partition but boot linux 
from a DOS floppy disk?  This would save hard disk space, but would boot a 
bit slower than directly from hard disk.  

I think it just involved making a DOS boot disk with an autoexec.bat file 
containing the line boot.bat, and a boot.bat file pointing to the file 
system on hard drive (hda1 or hda2, depending which is swap partition), 
and having zimage on the boot disk.  I should try this for fun.

Have you tried using BL1 itself as a 2-floppy rescue disk?   Or BL3?
Would the latter work better in low RAM?  They both do fdisk.

You are certainly pushing linux to the limits.  Why do you want to use 
this particular computer for programming?


On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Denton He wrote:


> hi again,
> 
> i've decided to go with BL1 but i forgot to make a DOS partition, and BL1 
> didn't install properly so I'm looking for a floppy disk rescue disk with 
> fdisk capability which will run on 4MB RAM.
> 
> I've tried a no. of the rescue disk already such as
> 
> tomsrtbt, it froze at uncompressing linux for some reason
> 
> so if anyone can give me a name which they know has worked for them, that 
> would be great
> 
> thanks again
> 
> 
> Denton
> 
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