Re: [Nolug] Trying to make a boot disk

From: dane reugger <dane_at_downtownpc.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:56:26 -0600
Message-ID: <41EF39FA.8030304@downtownpc.com>

See if something here will help - worked for me recently.

http://www.bootdisk.com/

John Tiedeman wrote:
> Since neither of my desktops will read CDs at present, I got a
> notebook with CD and floppy drives. They're swappable and can't be used
> at the same time, so I downloaded a Linux boot.img to hard drive under
> w98, then switched drives and tried to copy that 1.44M to a 1.44M
> diskette. I have tried it with two, freshly formatted. I keep getting a
> message that there isn't enough space. I assume a DOS-formatted diskette
> should work. If it won't I'm out of luck, as this machine won't write to
> a Linux-formatted disc. Solution?
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