Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

["David" <dacubup@xxxxxxx>]

OK, Thanks for your reply.
As you say, This floopy boot disk is made in linux. But in my machine, there is no linux environment but only windows. So I still don't know how to make a floopy boot disk in windows environment.
Some good advice about it? 

======= 2005-10-24 21:06:32 in your mail =======

>Philipp Thomas wrote:
>> "David" <dacubup@xxxxxxx> [Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:37:22 +0800]:
>> 
>>> So I don't know why the SUSE canceled boot floopy disk image in
>>> version 10.
>> 
>> To save space opn the media. Many systems nowadays don't even have a
>> floppy drive.
>
>There are instructions for building boot floppies, in the commercial
>package.  From /boot/README
>
>"Creating SUSE LINUX 10.0 Boot Disks
>----------------------------------
>
>The boot files are split across several floppy disks.
>
>To create boot disks, run 'mkbootdisk' (the program is in this directory) on
>a Linux system:
>
>1. Mount CD1 or DVD (e.g. to /media/cdrom).
>
>2. Run
>     /media/cdrom/boot/mkbootdisk /media/cdrom
>
>   to create boot disk image files bootdisk1 - bootdiskN.
>
>3. Write these image files to floppies, using e.g.
>
>     dd if=bootdisk1 of=/dev/fd0
>
>   (and bootdisk2 - bootdiskN accordingly).
>
>4. A short usage summary of 'mkbootdisk' gives
>
>     mkbootdisk --help"
>
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Best Regards,
2005-10-25