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Boot Floppies This is a boot floppy that will allow you to access most CD ROM's. It has a much faster boot time than the original since it doesn't take the time to create the RAM disk and uncompress all the utilities to it. If you can't boot to NT for a variety of reasons, it might be a good idea to have made up a boot floppy before the problem arises. www.onecomputerguy.com /install/floppies.htm   (497 words)

Emergency boot floppies - Andamooka Reader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) However, some such boot disks contain only the kernel, and assume you will be using the programs on the distribution's installation disks to fix whatever problem you have. You can't use the floppy drive you use to mount the root floppy for anything else. However, if you have enough memory, you can configure your boot floppy to load the root disk to a ramdisk (the boot floppy's kernel needs to be specially configured for this). www.andamooka.org /reader.pl?pgid=sagx1711   (310 words)

[No title] Booting from an existing operating system is often a convenient option; for some systems it is the only supported method of installation. Booting With the Rescue Floppy ----------------------------------- Booting from the Rescue Floppy is easy: place the Rescue Floppy in the primary floppy drive, and reset the system by pressing _reset_, or by turning the system off and on. If you aren't using a boot manager (and this is probably the case if you don't know what a boot manager is) and you don't have another different operating system on the same machine, answer ``Yes'' to this question. www.de.debian.org /releases/slink/i386/install.en.txt   (19784 words)

Make boot floppies In this chapter we will learn how to make useable boot floppies from files downloaded from the Internet. The ramdisk floppies are in the ramdisk.image.gz file found in the install directory on a LinuxPPC ftp mirror or on the CD. On some systems you may have to be root to write directly to the floppy drive. www.linuxselfhelp.com /HOWTO/IBM7248-HOWTO/floppies.html   (385 words)

The BeOS Tip Server : Home In R4.5, creating extra BeOS boot floppies becomes a lot easier than it was in the past. This floppy will attempt to boot from your /gorgonzola partition even if it's not your main boot partition. To create a boot floppy from within Windows, search the net for a tool called rawrite.exe and run according to its included instructions. www.betips.net /chunga.php?id=245   (470 words)

Make boot floppies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) In this chapter we will learn where to get floppy images, and how to make useable boot floppies from them. To make the boot floppy, insert a floppy in the drive, cd to the directory containing the boot floppy image and issue the following command, substitute "debian" to your distributon prefix if necessary. To make a ramdisk floppy, insert a floppy in the drive, cd to the directory containing the ramdisk image, and issue the following command. www.tuxfinder.com /LDP/HOWTO/IBM7248-HOWTO/floppies.html   (390 words)

Building boot floppies for Windows XP installations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) In a few cases, however, booting from CD may not be possible or practical -- for instance, if the system in question does not support CD booting, or if the installation image for whatever reason is not bootable. If there is no recourse to the original media, then a boot floppy may be the only viable solution. Windows 2000 has always had the ability to build boot floppies from the CD, to allow an install without needing a CD boot process. searchwin2000.techtarget.com /tip/1,289483,sid1_gci951925,00.html   (417 words)

[arch] i586 boot floppies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Greetings, I'm pretty sure I don't need to remind you guys that the boot floppies for the i586 are really old. I checked the bbs and it turns out that this is probably due to the change in the name of the kernel package from kernel to kernel2x. It'd be nice if the floppies were update seeing as how I can't boot the LiveCD, but I'd be just as happy to find a hack around this so I can install. www.archlinux.org /pipermail/arch/2004-August/002080.html   (165 words)

Debian Weekly News - November 23rd, 1999 Adam Di Carlo reports on the status of the boot floppies: "we've mostly completed shoring up the internals of boot-floppies". Adam also says that "all the major tasks are assigned, and to capable people" and that the work on the boot floppies is on track to be "feature complete in early December". The best way to help with the boot floppies now is to help the team work through their bug list, and to help test the base system installed by the boot floppies. www.debian.org /News/weekly/1999/45   (498 words)

Boot Floppies Failure in Woody - Debian Planet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) I've been trying to install debian from the woody/testing boot floppies (udma100-ext3, reiser and plain vanilla). I used just the rescue and root floppies last night to install debian woody down the net and it worked a treat. I've used the compact 3.0.14 floppies for a few weeks now on several machines and haven't had this problem. www.debianplanet.org /node.php?id=446   (605 words)

WinMag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) The only way to load Whistler onto a system with no OS on it would be to boot the CD provided that the system in question supported booting from a CD in the first place. "[E]liminating boot floppies is a bad idea, but not because it strips out a traditional capability in terms of installing with the aid of floppies. The next Power Win2000 column, "Give Us Our Boot Floppies!", went into greater detail about the problem and why it was such a potentially bad move: Among other things, it made older computers that much harder to work with and it was one less contingency plan in a field where every contingency plan counts. www.winmag.com /specialreports/news/whistlerboot1208.htm   (635 words)

drivers.conf(5) - drivers.conf - driver configuration file for boot floppies - man 5 drivers.conf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Once the system has booted, the modules present in the /stand/modules directory of the mfsroot floppy will automatically be loaded by sysinstall(8). This is used by driver-remove.pl to remove drivers from the boot(8,9) floppy kernel configuration file that are included as modules on the mfsroot floppy. The third field, floppy, specifies which floppy disk should include the kernel module. tautology.org /software/man/5/drivers.conf   (296 words)

The FreeBSD Diary -- Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD Note that the files you are copying are not DOS files so you can not use regular copy procedures to put them on the floppy. I always find it easiest to create boot floppies using my NT box. If you are creating floppies from DOS, and you get told a file is too big, you probably downloaded the file in ASCII mode, not binary mode. www.freebsddiary.org /bootfloppies.php   (462 words)

Syllable - 0.5.4 boot floppies/images   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Depedning on what you need exactly, the 0.5.3 boot floppies will almost certainly work for you. In order for me to update anything on those floppies I would have to update libsyllable, the appserver, libc, the kernel...all of it, in fact. Trying to cram all of that onto three floppy disks is official Not Fun, and I don't really want to torture myself doing it. syllable.sourceforge.net /discussion.php?id=606   (160 words)

Linux Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) As a result I had to make some of my own Debian boot floppies, as Debian has dropped, probably temporarily, MegaRAID from a compiled-in option in its "compact" flavour boot floppies. The "compact" flavour floppies contain support for hardware, typically server RAID and NIC hardware, that isn't available in the standard install kernels. In particular, you will need to move the location of the driver modules once you have got to this point in the installation process, as the kernel version on the rescue disk I have produced is incompatible with the modules. www.campbell-lange.net /linux   (262 words)

Problem making boot floppies If you get errors from fdformat but not dd, or visa-versa, that could indicate a bad drive (dirty read-write heads, misaligned heads, humidity, dust,...) though it usually indicates bad media. The only prudent thing to do with a bad floppy is toss it in the trash. I assume you are buying preformatted floppies or you would have seen the effect by yourself. myfreebsd.homeunix.net /freebsd/check_floppy.html   (1032 words)

How to obtain Windows XP Setup boot disks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) The Setup boot disks are available so that you can run the Setup program on computers that cannot use a bootable CD-ROM. Type the drive letter for the floppy disk drive (this is typically drive A). The computer must be configured to boot from the floppy disk drive. support.microsoft.com /default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q310994   (518 words)

kickstart-me - AIMS utility to avoid usage of boot floppies Kickstart-me script prepares machine for booting straight into kickstart installation from its hard drive avoiding the need for making installation boot floppy. This is done by copying the boot floppy image contents to the hard drive and setting up the machine bootloader (grub or lilo) to boot straight from there. Change lilo configuration (lilo.conf) This option may be only needed if kickstart-me cannot check which boot loader you use. linux.web.cern.ch /linux/aims/kickstart-me.html   (306 words)

Prepare root and boot floppies for the new installation.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Prepare root and boot floppies for the new installation. If you haven't got a CDROM drive, or can't boot from it, details of how to make the floppies will be found in the installation guide for your new distribution. Format floppies for the temporary kernel and the final build. ldp.nllgg.nl /HOWTO/Upgrade/x120.html   (87 words)

Emergency boot floppies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) However, many such boot disks contain only the kernel, and assume you will be using the programs on the distributions' installation disks to fix whatever problem you have. This can be inconvenient if you only have one floppy. This frees the floppy drive after the root floppy has been loaded to a ramdisk. alice.ci.pwr.wroc.pl /unix/SAG/node26.html   (257 words)

MSDOS boot floppies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Some of > them have non-functioning harddrives and so we need MSDOS boot floppies to see > if at least the floppy drives are working. Dunno if you've taken care of it yet, but I recently went nosing through my floppy stash and I happen to have a DOS 6.20 Boot Disk (at least that's what I labeled it some time ago.) I can try to make an image or something if needed. boot disk.) -- "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be." http://jccooper.brown.rice.edu linux.rice.edu /pipermail/rlug-discuss/2000-May/000416.html   (205 words)

Emergency boot floppies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) It is not always possible to boot a computer from the hard disk. Sometimes those programs aren't enough; for example, you might have to restore some files from backups made with software not on the installation disks. This can be inconvenient if you only have one floppy drive. jamesthornton.com /linux/sag/x2025.html   (243 words)

Wilders Security Forums - Need Linux Boot Floppies. Why? Once the thing is ready to boot, I get a missing MBR message and that I need to insert Linux boot floppies to do some manual tweaking (recreate GRUB etc.). PS: Since the whole thing was on a 3ware RAID, Linux boot floppies did not help in recreating GRUB and MBR. If this is the case we recommend you to boot your computer from Linux installation CD, go to the Recovery Console, mount the partition with GRUB and rewrite it. www.wilderssecurity.com /showthread.php?t=50911   (618 words)

Boot floppies | MEPIS Support In Windows, go to the /floppies folder on the CD and run mkflop.bat then insert the floppies when prompted. To boot from floppy, insert both the Boot Floppy #1 and the CD, then reboot your system. From the floppy's menu, select to boot from CD for the version of MEPIS you are booting, and follow the instructions. www.mepis.org /node/5543   (178 words)

Software Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) In creating the boot disk I was given a choice of creating it either on 6 floppies or one CD-I chose the CD and successfully created the boot disk. Symantec Drive Image requires only two boot floppies for older versions and cannot create floppies for new versions (the program CD is bootable). It is a good idea to check if boot disks work before an emergency-it does no good to find a drive wiped out and a boot disk that doesn’t do what it is supposed to do. www.computerswest.org /sftwr_eval.htm   (8155 words)

ERD Commander 2000 - Repair dead or misconfigured Windows NT/2000 systems, using NT boot floppies or a CD-ROM Administrators can then remove or replace corrupted drivers, update system files, correct security mistakes that prevent the OS from booting, recover from improperly installed Service Packs or other updates, and copy essential files off of a dead system. Boots from floppy disks, CD-ROM, or hard disk. If you are booting ERD Commander 2000 from floppy disks you will need four blank 1.44MB floppy diskettes in a Windows NT 4.0 environment or five blank 1.44MB floppy diskettes in a Windows 2000 environment. www.purenetworking.net /Products/ERDCommander/ERDCommander.htm   (484 words)

Annoyances.org - re: XP pro Boot floppies (Windows XP Discussion Forum) You haven't said what happens (or not) when you try to boot with your WXP CD, but I am wondering if your BIOS is set to recognize your CD drive as the first bootable device. You get into your BIOS settings by pressing, or repeatedly pressing, a keyboard key - usually "delete" - as the computer boots up until the BIOS setup or settings screen comes up. Please do not plagiarize; redistributing these pages without permission is strictly prohibited. www.annoyances.org /exec/forum/winxp/1084568476   (227 words)

Darik's Boot and Nuke Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. You cannot create the DBAN floppy disk by copying files to a blank floppy disk. You can check whether you have one of these disks by booting with a DOS floppy and writing to the last sector with a hex editor. dban.sourceforge.net   (695 words)

WindowsXP > Microsoft Website Boot-floppies > WindowsXP Help   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes Eraser for Microsoft Windows. Please support our sponsor try with those handy boot floppies I made, as I There are currently 1158 user(s) online on this website... All programs and files are your existing set of boot floppies and convert them into it from http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB... winxpworld.com /res_Microsoft+Website+Boot-floppies_0.php   (351 words)

Computer Technical Tutorials Rate Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) If you need to install Windows9x from either a Standalone or Networked computer, it is a good idea to create some boot floppies. This page explains how to create boot floppies. Please rate this link with a value between 1 and 10, with 10 being the best value and 1 being the lowest value. www.techtutorials.info /rate.php?3244   (54 words)

4. Make boot floppies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) To install linuxppc-2000 on the 7248 you need three floppies: One bootfloppy, and two ramdisk floppies. The ramdisk floppies are in the ramdisk.image.gz file found in the install/ directory on a linuxPPC ftp mirror, but it would be easier, at least for ms-dos users to download 1.44MB sliced images, also from my images directory over http. If strange freezes or other things happens at boot time, try using another web browser for downloading the files. users.linpro.no /ingvar/43p/2000/4.html   (399 words)

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