?Toms Root Boot Disk?
Sorry if I am on the wrong track, I missed your previous email. I assume by
the reply you are looking for a floppy which holds a file system. You may
want to look at Tom's Root Boot Disk. It is fairly versatile and you can
boot just about any machine and load modules to support your hardware (SCSI,
NIC, etc..) The floppy actually makes a ramdisk and mounts the file system
there. From there you can mount drives, for file system checks, pull from
tape, and any other type of recovery you will need. Check it out.
http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html
Again, sorry if I misunderstood.
----------------------------------------------------"Waaaaaaaa Whaaa"--
Don Brocker --Chewy
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: C.Jagadish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: Can floppy act as Linux HardDisk
>It is hard to be certain from what you wrote, but it appears that you
didn't
>copy enough stuff to the floppy.
>
>1. You only mention copying files into floppy versions of /etc and /sbin .
>What about /bin? At the least, you need a shell and "login" there (or you
>need to symlink /bin to /harddisk/bin, or you need to change all the shells
>in passwd from /bin/bash to /harddisk/bin/bash).
>
>2. You should check the rc* scripts and see if any other modifications of
>paths are needed to let them locate other things that are needed to boot --
>crond, syslogd, and sendmail are a few that quickly come to mind.
>
>3. You say you put into /etc files "like" .... That's too vague for me to
>know if you missed one, but, for example, you don't mention /etc/inittab,
>the file that tells init how to boot up the system at various runlevels.
>
>Fixing all of this may easily exceed the capacity of a floppy disk, even if
>you use a special formatter to get it up to 1.7 megs or so. Are you sure
you
>need this approach? You can boot from a floppy and still make the harddisk
>the root filesystem.
>
>At 10:12 AM 6/30/99 +0530, C.Jagadish wrote [in part]:
>>Helo Sir,
>> For some application I want a floppy to act as a linux hardDisk,
>>in doing so I have some problems.
>[rest deleted]
>
>
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