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Putting boot floppy disk on cd
Name: vinylswing Date: October 16, 2002 at 14:08:34 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
I installed redhat linux 8 on separate partition. Since I did not installed grub to the mbr I could not boot into linux. I got no floppy drive. I was wondering If i could boot into linux from the cd or create a bootable cd with the boot files from a boot floppy.
Name: Lawrence Date: October 16, 2002 at 18:46:44 Pacific
Reply:
Why don't you try to boot your Linux system up using the first CD! In this case, choose "rescue" at the lilo prompt... Once you are back in, create a bootable floppy disk or install either grub or lilo!!! It would make your life a little easier if you use Linux bootloader--grub or lilo.
Lawrence
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Response Number 2
Name: Richard Date: October 17, 2002 at 01:44:20 Pacific
Reply:
Definitely use a Linux boot loader.
Otherwise (and this will be tricky) you could (theoretically) make a boot floppy disk image (as opposed to a disk) and use this to make a bootable CD. You'd have to do a lot of reading to get this working though.
Otherwise, you could use loadlin under windows (or DOS rather) to boot into Linux from Windows.
Using a Linux bootloader is by far the best choice though.
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