Subject: Re: Linux Boot Floppy?
From: Tommy Young (tommyyoung@mac.com)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 19:59:57 MST
not to my lnowledge but there is a program for windows, and you could
probably use in vpc if you have it otherwise go find a pc loving friend
Tommy
> From: "Robert Vogt IV" <vogt@arborhost.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 21:02:19 -0500
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Linux Boot Floppy?
>
> Tommy,
>
>> Depending on how badly damaged the partition table is, if the drive is
>> connected and on while in the system boot time, the system will not boot, as
>> was in my case, as I had tried a boot cd, as I do have a boot cd Drive,
>> because it is a apple. You could also try putting the internal hd in another
>> computer and fixing it there. I know this is kind of not using a linux boot
>> disk, but hey. Also if you really want a boot disk, as i recall from my days
>> tring to get debian working on my centris 650, there are boot disk available
>> from debian mirrors. I will look into this.
> I found a Debian 'rescue.bin' image. I can't figure out how to write it
> to disk in the MacOS, though (none of our YDL systems have floppy drives or
> understand theirs - read G4s and PowerBooks :) ). Is there a MacOS
> equivalent to 'dd'?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Robert Vogt IV
> CEO
> ArborHost
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