[syslinux] boot speed

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon May 27 11:43:13 PDT 2002


Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> Let me rephrase that:
> 
> <Windows user assumed>
> 
> Suppose you have a working 1.68 or 1.73 physical floppy with everything
> you need already prepared.
> 
> Then, you open winimage, create an image from the physical floppy,
> convert the format to 2.88, save it in an uncompressed format (.IMA)
> and then feed it to isolinux.
> 
> That was what I meant on my previous post.
> 

What I mean is that this discussion is about booting from real floppy 
disks.  Not from CD-ROMs.  Besides, ISOLINUX wouldn't use a floppy image 
at all.

If you can switch to boot from CD, you're much better off, of course.

	-hpa





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