[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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