Re: Booting to floppy first?

it's on the iso. mount the iso, as below, then use dd, as Seth 
instructed, to write lnx.img to a floppy.

good luck
dave


dave@insp5100:~$ su -
Password:
insp5100:~# mount -o loop /home/dave/iso/bbc-2.1.iso /mnt/
insp5100:~# ls /mnt/
CREDITS    autorun.inf   cloop.o      lnx.img     mnt      singularity
TRANS.TBL  bbc.css       dev          lnxbbc.htm  putty
archivers  boot.catalog  docopen.exe  logo.png    rawrite




Rusty Ambrose wrote:
> 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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