Re: bootable floppy for Debian-on-USB

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:19:39 -0700, orange wrote:

Debian already has a special boot floppy for booting systems that can't
boot off USB drives directly to boot. I used it to install Debian on an
IBM 240X notebook, which can only boot off the hard drive or floppy, to
boot and install Debian off the USB CD-ROM drive.

Stef

do you have a link? I'm a newbie so I'm looking for done, completed,
'.raw' image of floppy.
I'm trying to boot (not install) Debian from USB.

Try this link: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/

You mean boot as in Live CD boot: A fully usable system running off the
CD? No, the Debain boot floppy is designed to load a basic system into
RAM, load the necessary drivers, et al, then transfer control over to a
standard Debian install CD. Although, I can't remember, if that CD has a
"rescue" mode or not. If it does, that will give you a working, though
limited, commandline system.

some people said that new kernel with USB support is too big to fit on
diskette.

Yes, it is. "It" being any of the binary 2.6 kernels. If you can compile
one yourself, you might be able to get it small enough to put on a floppy,
but I doubt it. A minimal 2.4 kernel just barely fits.

Stef
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