On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:45:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:33:01 EST > "Bayard R. Coolidge" said: > > >At the risk of sounding like a smart aleck, I would very strongly > >suggest that anyone building a test kernel like this on an i386-based > >system, do so by doing a 'make bzdisk' and have it expectorate the > >kernel under test onto a floppy. > > Here's a stupid question. Dell recently announced that they're > getting rid of floppy drives in their systems. I expect most other > manufacturers to eventually follow suit. So, when this happens, and > we're all living in a floppy-less world, how do then do things like > 'make bzdisk' ?
Booting from CD-ROM isn't that hard. I was building them a few years ago to try LTSP on systems that didn't support network booting. In short, you just build a 1.44MB (or 2.88 IIRC) boot 'floppy' on the CD-ROM and stuff your data in there. With CD-Rs being cheaper and more available than floppies, it's a great solution. You might even be able to do it with CD-RWs and reuse them a few times. -Mark
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