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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Mon, 1 Jan 1990 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> 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, 

What I meant is that you do not need to have a DOS partition that way.  
What is the smallest DOS partition that can be used to boot BL from?  Can
you make it the same size as zimage plus loadlin, say 500K?

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