The future of Diskette bootstraps

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, david <david at daku.org> said:
> I've seen only hard-disk or diskette boot.  And with these constraints, 
> I've been able to load up W2k, Windoze XP and Fedora Core 1, because each 
> of them has a diskette bootstrap method.

You could use a FreeDOS bootable floppy with a generic ATAPI CD-ROM
driver and loadlin to boot Linux (using the kernel and initrd from the
CD).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.