At 07:42 9-5-2001 +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
>
> 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.
Ok so make it a choice of getting a working floppy (on some/most machines)
or no floppy at all. I choosse the first. If it works, great! If it doesn't
I'll fiddle with the XFS install CD.
The one that get's generated now during install definitely won't work.
I'll have a go at making a larger bootfloppy (Heck I need one to sometimes).
Cheers
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes
one for which it was written and
another for which it wasn't
I make the last kind.
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