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Assume I have a laptop computer without a floppy
drive ( I don't, but assume it anyway :).

I want to create a custom boot cdrom.  This
seems to require that I have a floppy drive
to create the (lilo)  boot section for the cd.

Is there software, or a procedure, available
that will allow this without the actual floppy
drive?

Thanks in Advance,

John

Quote:> Assume I have a laptop computer without a floppy
> drive ( I don't, but assume it anyway :).

> I want to create a custom boot cdrom.  This
> seems to require that I have a floppy drive
> to create the (lilo)  boot section for the cd.

> Is there software, or a procedure, available
> that will allow this without the actual floppy
> drive?

> Thanks in Advance,

> John

  I use this script:

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#! /bin/bash

#set -e

if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
    echo 'usage: mk-boot-floppy <kernel> <root>'
    exit -1
fi

kernel=$1
root=$2

MTOOLSRC=mtools.rc.$$; export MTOOLSRC

cat > $MTOOLSRC <<EOF
drive g: file="boot.img" 1.44m mformat_only
EOF

[ -f boot.img ] && rm -f boot.img
dd if=/dev/zero of=boot.img bs=1024 count=1440

mformat -l "CoolCS boot" g:

/usr/coolcs/bin/syslinux-1.52/syslinux boot.img

cp $kernel linux.$$
rdev linux.$$ $root
mcopy linux.$$ g:vmlinux
rm linux.$$

cat > syslinux.cfg.$$ <<EOF

prompt 1
timeout 50

label linux
        kernel vmlinux

EOF

mcopy syslinux.cfg.$$ g:syslinux.cfg
rm syslinux.cfg.$$

mdir g:

rm $MTOOLSRC
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  Mike McDonald

Quote:

> Assume I have a laptop computer without a floppy
> drive ( I don't, but assume it anyway :).

> I want to create a custom boot cdrom.  This
> seems to require that I have a floppy drive
> to create the (lilo)  boot section for the cd.

> Is there software, or a procedure, available
> that will allow this without the actual floppy
> drive?

You may want to look at the loop device.
It's used by a number of tools that generate ramdisk images and it can
be used to generate floppy image, too.

--
Josef M?llers (Pinguinpfleger bei FSC)
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