On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 04:46:27PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/4/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:39:57AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > > >> Is there an option I can make a "boot CD" like the boot floppy option > >> present in RedHat/Fedora systems towards the end of installation? > > > >You can use the netinst CD as a rescue disk. Just boot with option > >'rescue' or 'rescuegui'. > Well I want a substitute for the "boot floppy" that used to boot the > system in the days gone by. Even a 1.44 MB floppy was able to boot a > normal debian system .... I think I did it once on a potato 2.2 system > and it would happily boot off the floppy in to the normal debian and > even X worked well. > > Is that not possible with the netinstall? Where's that boot floppy option > now?
Back in the days... the normal kernel would fit on a floppy. Nolonger. So a true floppy can't be used to boot up the system. The rescue mode of the installer presents you with a menu, one is run a shell chroot to the root directory, another is install the grub boot loader. This issue has been a constant pain whenever I install Etch. Grub is never installed (since when etch was testing six months ago and again now that its stable). Yes I did bug reports, yes I subscribed to them, no I never heard anything further. OTOH, I only have two boxes that will boot either Etch or Sarge's installer... Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
