Re: [newbie] cdrom bootdisk?
"Mr. Smith" wrote: I would like to know if it is possible (I am pretty sure it is) to create a bootdisk on a cd. I would like to know because I am using Mandrake, BeOS (free), and Winblows. I find the floppy slightly...slow. So I was just wondering how I could create a bootdisk to launch linux from a cd instead of the floppy I created. Thanks in advance, Mr. Smith Boot into Linux and run the command #lilo as root Whalla you don't need a floppy no more (just make sure the other cs's are entered in /etc/lilo.conf)
[newbie] cdrom bootdisk?
I would like to know if it is possible (I am pretty sure it is) to create a bootdisk on a cd. I would like to know because I am using Mandrake, BeOS (free), and Winblows. I find the floppy slightly...slow. So I was just wondering how I could create a bootdisk to launch linux from a cd instead of the floppy I created. Thanks in advance, Mr. Smith
Re: [newbie] cdrom bootdisk?
Mr. Smith, If you _INSIST_ on creating a boot CD, I guess all you would have to do is take the boot disk you have, and then burn it to CD. That's a huge waste of a CD, but that will do the trick. You could consider buying LS-120. It doesn't run off the floppy cahin and is much faster, but those do get pricey and so are the discs. (It will read regular ole floppies though.) So that would most likely be the easiest thing. But it's a waste of a CD, but however cheaper then a LS-120. tdh -- T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "Real Men use Vi." * Mr. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001220 11:10]: I would like to know if it is possible (I am pretty sure it is) to create a bootdisk on a cd. I would like to know because I am using Mandrake, BeOS (free), and Winblows. I find the floppy slightly...slow. So I was just wondering how I could create a bootdisk to launch linux from a cd instead of the floppy I created. Thanks in advance, Mr. Smith
Re: [newbie] cdrom bootdisk?
that's interesting as i was thinking of the same thing. see, i have a "live CD" of Red Hat (version 3.something) which i can boot up from the CD. i know that in XCDRoast there is an option to make a CD bootable. so i was thinking that i would figure out which files directories i must have to run linux, then burn those to the CD make it bootable. in theory i can get a live file system. i expect however there might be problems with some configuration files, or the boot up or something. but i can burn those bridges when i get to them. this will be as much a learning tool for me as something actually practical useable. what would really be fun would be to add X with very general config files that would work on most any system and Enlightenment so that i could boot this up on other peoples system and show off. =) but that is another bridge even further down the road. but sure, there is no reason you can't do this. as someone said in reply to you, it's rather a waste of a CD -- so you may as well add some other stuff to it then it might become a good recovery tool or portable linux distrabution (which is what i am hoping to create). yea, then i could use linux at work oh. IS people having fits and convulstions when they see it... oh i could tell them i formatted the drive and installed Linux oh they would be foaming at the mouth oh i love it. the other Mr. Smith Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Mr. Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9:10:21 AM 12/20/00 I would like to know if it is possible (I am pretty sure it is) to create a bootdisk on a cd. I would like to know because I am using Mandrake, BeOS (free), and Winblows. I find the floppy slightly...slow. So I was just wondering how I could create a bootdisk to launch linux from a cd instead of the floppy I created. Thanks in advance, Mr. Smith
