'make bzSomethingOtherThanOnAFloppy [was Re: Linux booting problems ]

[Mark Komarinski]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:45:41PM -0500, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:33:01 EST
> "Bayard R. Coolidge" said:
> 
> >At  the risk of sounding like a smart aleck, I would very strongly 
> >suggest that anyone building a test kernel like this on an i386-based
> >system, do so by doing a 'make bzdisk' and have it expectorate the
> >kernel under test onto a floppy. 
> 
> Here's a stupid question.  Dell recently announced that they're 
> getting rid of floppy drives in their systems.  I expect most other 
> manufacturers to eventually follow suit.  So, when this happens, and 
> we're all living in a floppy-less world, how do then do things like
> 'make bzdisk' ?

Booting from CD-ROM isn't that hard.  I was building them a few years ago
to try LTSP on systems that didn't support network booting.

In short, you just build a 1.44MB (or 2.88 IIRC) boot 'floppy' on
the CD-ROM and stuff your data in there.  With CD-Rs being cheaper and more
available than floppies, it's a great solution.  You might even be
able to do it with CD-RWs and reuse them a few times.

-Mark
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