Thanks for the info Charles. You always come through.
Best Regards,
Roger McClurg
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"Charles
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@steinkuehler Subject: Re: 1.68 Meg Floppy Image of
CROM binary
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10/07/02
10:12 AM
> I've got an old PC running the 1.02 Dachstein CD. It can't boot from
the CD
> so I use a floppy boot disk. Herein lies the problem. I am running
IPSEC on
> this machine and am just barely fitting the backups on the floppy. I'd
like
> to run a couple more applications on the PC but have no room to store
the
> configuration backups on the floppy.
>
> Is there a 1.68 Meg floppy image of the CD boot binary available? If
not
> how do I go about creating such a beast?
There isn't a 1.68 Meg image of the CD Boot disk available, but it's a
minor tweak to turn a standard Dachstein disk into one (all packages are
identical between the CD and floppy versions of Dachstein...only
differences are boot options and media type). Simply edit syslinux.cfg,
and set the PKGPATH parameter to include the CD-ROM
(PKGPATH=/dev/cdrom:iso9660). Leave the BOOT= parameter as-is (should
be set to 1680K floppy if you start with a Dachstein floppy image), and
you're all set.
Of course, you'll probably want to replace the standard "full" packages
of etc, modules, etc. on the default Dachstein distribution with your
existing partial backups rather than re-create them from scratch.
As a bonus, your 1680K floppy will boot faster than the 1440K disk.
Since there's more data on each track, it takes fewer revolutions of the
floppy media to load the initial system image.
> As always, thanks for the help.
>
> BTW. Have you had a chance to rebuild your network, or are your
machines
> still in the garage?
I've got one or two systems back online, but not enough to do any real
test networks :<
Charles Steinkuehler
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)
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