Boot floppy

[STeve]

Under Windows nt 4 you could make a boot floppy with
boot.ini on it how do i do this under XP

[S.Heenan]

STeve wrote:

> Under Windows nt 4 you could make a boot floppy with
> boot.ini on it how do i do this under XP

Copy Boot.ini, Ntdetect.com, and Ntldr to a floppy.

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[Mouser]

I run Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and I'm well-satisfied with the distro. It
was installed from a CD I burned from a downloaded .iso file.

My question: How do I go about making a boot floppy? Or can I use the
installation CD I made from the .iso file for that purpose? (I'm trying to
set things up so I can boot Ubuntu from a floppy, instead of relying on the
boot sector on my hda drive to sort things out.)

[Bud]

On Mouser wrote:

> I run Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and I'm well-satisfied with the distro. It
> was installed from a CD I burned from a downloaded .iso file.
>
> My question: How do I go about making a boot floppy? Or can I use the
> installation CD I made from the .iso file for that purpose? (I'm trying to
> set things up so I can boot Ubuntu from a floppy, instead of relying on the
> boot sector on my hda drive to sort things out.)

When installed it asks, if I recall correctly, where to install lilo. Tell
it to install on a floppy.

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[Stephen Rush]

On Mon, 29 May 2006 20:49:00 +0000, Bud wrote:

> On Mouser wrote:

>> I run Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and I'm well-satisfied with the distro. It
>> was installed from a CD I burned from a downloaded .iso file.
>>
>> My question: How do I go about making a boot floppy? Or can I use the
>> installation CD I made from the .iso file for that purpose? (I'm trying to
>> set things up so I can boot Ubuntu from a floppy, instead of relying on the
>> boot sector on my hda drive to sort things out.)

>
> When installed it asks, if I recall correctly, where to install lilo. Tell
> it to install on a floppy.

Note that the current kernel is too big to fit on a floppy. Try the live
CD.

[tuxtyro]

Stephen Rush wrote:

> On Mon, 29 May 2006 20:49:00 +0000, Bud wrote:
>

>> On Mouser wrote:

>>> I run Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and I'm well-satisfied with the distro. It
>>> was installed from a CD I burned from a downloaded .iso file.
>>>
>>> My question: How do I go about making a boot floppy? Or can I use the
>>> installation CD I made from the .iso file for that purpose? (I'm trying to
>>> set things up so I can boot Ubuntu from a floppy, instead of relying on the
>>> boot sector on my hda drive to sort things out.)

>> When installed it asks, if I recall correctly, where to install lilo. Tell
>> it to install on a floppy.

>
> Note that the current kernel is too big to fit on a floppy. Try the live
> CD.
>

Correct me if i'm wrong, but one can install just the bootloader to the
floppy; if the kernel is in place on the drive, the bootloader should
find any OS to boot to, right?

[Bud]

On tuxtyro wrote:

> Stephen Rush wrote:

>> On Mon, 29 May 2006 20:49:00 +0000, Bud wrote:
>>

>>> On Mouser wrote:
>>>> I run Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and I'm well-satisfied with the distro. It
>>>> was installed from a CD I burned from a downloaded .iso file.
>>>>
>>>> My question: How do I go about making a boot floppy? Or can I use the
>>>> installation CD I made from the .iso file for that purpose? (I'm trying to
>>>> set things up so I can boot Ubuntu from a floppy, instead of relying on the
>>>> boot sector on my hda drive to sort things out.)
>>> When installed it asks, if I recall correctly, where to install lilo. Tell
>>> it to install on a floppy.

>>
>> Note that the current kernel is too big to fit on a floppy. Try the live
>> CD.
>>

> Correct me if i'm wrong, but one can install just the bootloader to the
> floppy; if the kernel is in place on the drive, the bootloader should
> find any OS to boot to, right?

Correct. I have three Linux OS on a lilo boot floppy, and room for more.
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[Mike Easter]

Mouser wrote:

> My question: How do I go about making a boot floppy?

<disclaimer: I'm a newb here, just reading docs trying to solve my own
problem>

[url]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GrubHowto/BootFloppy[/url] This how to describes
making a GRUB boot floppy. [...] It assumes that you are making the
diskette on a Ubuntu Linux box.


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Mike Easter