Seth Mos schrieb:
>
> At 20:47 7-5-2001 -0700, Tom Duffy wrote:
> > > 1) Boot floppy:
> > > When doing a mkbootdisk 2.4.2-xxxxx I saw that the content couldn't
> > > fit on the disk. Then I tried the following:
> > > fdformat /dev/fd0u1722
> > > mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0u1722 2.4.2-xxxxx
> > > The disk was created successfully but unfortunately it didn't boot
> > > anyway. I guess it is a problem with the used 'syslinux'. Did
> > > you try something like this ?
> >
> >unfortunately, you cannot boot off of a superformatted floppy...this is a
> >limitation of the BIOS.
>
> What bios?? I can booted super formatted floppy's for my linuxrouter
> machine at home on a old 486PC which are 1680 I believe.
> I have encountered one machine with a external drives that would not boot
> these floppies. A toshiba with an external drive (portege 7800).
>
> So I have good succes with that. I believe they also succeeded in making a
> 2.88MB bootable cdrom ;-) Information about that should be somewhere in the
> archives. I am not 100% sure though.
Well, I tried the same with other computers and it seems that
some systems support booting big disks, others don't. Bioses
vary in this point. So it is not good to include this into the
installer.
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