Re: Booting to floppy first?

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 05:21:58PM -0700, 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?

bbc-2.1.iso is a file that contains within it other files.  It
is what is what is called a "CD image" and needs to be written
to a blank CD before you can see the files inside it, generally.

That's what we're trying to get at in this FAQ:

 What do I do with an ISO file? 
 http://www.lnx-bbc.org/faq-LNX_BBC.html#What_do_I_do_with_an_ISO_file_


Perhaps you might also find these FAQs, from a different
project, helpful too:

 What is a "CD image" anyway?
 http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#what-is

 How do I record a CD-R under Linux/Unix?
 http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-unix

 How do I record a CD-R under Windows?
 http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-windows

 How do I record a CD-R under Mac OS?
 http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-mac


--Joe


> --- 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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