Re: Booting to floppy first?

Rusty Ambrose <[email protected]> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:21:58 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sorry, as I am not sure how to create the lnx.img. 
When you download LNX-BBC, you get bbc-2.1.iso.  Is
there a separate file to download, or do I create one
from bbc-2.1.iso?

I am just begining to learn linux...sorry for being
pesky...

Rusty

--- Seth David Schoen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rusty Ambrose writes:
> 
> > I cannot seem to configure a system to boot to the
> CD
> > rom, and I thought lnx-bbc's site had instructions
> on
> > how to create a floppy boot disk to point to the
> CD
> > rom drive (can't find it now...)?  How do I do
> this?
> 
> fdformat /dev/fd0
> dd if=lnx.img of=/dev/fd0
> 
> or use RAWRITE2 to write lnx.img to a floppy, if you
> only have a DOS
> or Win32 machine.
> 
> If this is really not documented anywhere, please
> file a bug in our
> bug-tracking system against the lnx.img package.
> 
> P.S. Greetings to everybody from the Chaos
> Communications Camp, near
> Berlin.  The LNX-BBC is proving very popular here.
> 
> -- 
> Seth David Schoen <[email protected]> | Very
> frankly, I am opposed to people
>      http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/   | being
> programmed by others.
>      http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/     |     -- Fred
> Rogers (1928-2003),
>                                        |        464
> U.S. 417, 445 (1984)


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