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Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> 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?  

You can use that method to boot any Linux that has
a root filesystem sitting on a HD partition.  All
you need to do is extract the kernel image file and
put it on a DOS boot floppy with loadlin.exe.  

> This would save hard disk space, 

The only space it saves is the space occupied by 
the zimage.  For BL3 that is 435kb.

Cheers,
Steven