On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:02, Mike M wrote: > It worked! Great to hear!
> > > install grub on a floppy (perhaps it can be installed onto a bootable CD > > > if you don't have a floppy drive, if so, that will be just as useful). > > > > CD, no floppy > > A bit of a pain to make a bootable grub CD. Here's an outline: <snip> Thanks for posting your instructions. > Another layer of magic peeled back. More _power_. That's exactly how I felt the day I discovered grub. > I was able to boot OSs in both the ntfs and ext2 partitions. The Woody > install continued on its merry way. :) That's what we wanted to hear - so now whatever happens with your boot sector, you can still go and boot up any old partition that happens to have something bootable on it. BTW, I think that the new debian-installer (for sid/unstable) comes with grub as default - which might make new SID install CDs particularly valuable as a rescue CD. Here's hopin. You might also want to check out one or more of these debian packages (at least available in unstable/sid) - debian is just cool for tech-heads: dfsbuild grubconf debootstrap cdebootstrap mkrboot nfsbooted (one day when I've got time :) cheers zen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
