Re: Booting to floppy first?

Thanks for all of your help!

I have another question...

I created the floppy boot disk from lnx.img, the PC
booted to it and started lnx-bbc.  But when it went to
read the cd rom (on 2 systems) during the
initialization it failed.  Both systems are set in the
BIOS to boot from floppy & CDROM, neither will
directly boot from the CD either.

I can boot from a third system with either method.  Is
there a setting on the other 2 systems that is
incorrect???

Rusty

--- "D. Joe Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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