On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:20:49AM +0200, Kfir Lavi wrote: > On Wednesday 30 March 2005 02:35, guy keren wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > > Hi, > > > i would like to install netBSD. > > > They have floppy image for this installation. > > > I don't have floppy or cdrom attached to my computer. > > > Can i load the image from the hard disk with grub? other program? > > > > yes - look for info on loading 'memtest' from grub - i think some > > distributions have this configured by default, and i _think_ this is done > > by loading a floppy image. > Yep, i'm using memtest, and in debian its automaticly, but... > The size of floppy image considered as big because grub and lilo thinks its a > kernel, so it will not boot.
memtest seems like a linux kernel. That is, it's self-bootable (just as linux used to be not too long ago) and is also bootable by linux bootloaders (lilo, grub, etc.). It won't help you to load a general floppy image. As I said before, try memdisk. It's a small program that looks like a linux kernel and emulates a floppy for its payload (which IIRC is loaded as an initrd). -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
