(You seem to have sent your message three times to the list...) "Jianan Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) I read about disk boot problem in the mail list. Right now I boot > from a floppy. My machine BIOS can only boot from the C drive or the > floppy. I use D drive for my Linux. Note that you can install a boot loader (e.g., LILO or GRUB) into the MBR of the "C drive" (likely /dev/hda), and then you can boot your choice of operating system without affecting what's actually installed on either drive. > If my floppy fails to boot, I may have to re-build a whole new > system. It would be wise to have an image copy of the whole floppy > as a backup. Is there a utility to create a binary image of a Linux > floppy? dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img # make the image dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 # make a new floppy dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/fd1 # copy disks, given two floppy drives > 2) I have read about Linux BIOS. I believe BIOS is another area of > software that has to open up. Does Debian have one, and come with > source code too? Not particularly, but I also haven't heard of huge demand for one. Linux (I think like most other "modern" operating systems) mostly ignores the BIOS, with a couple of exceptions for things like APM. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
