[syslinux] Creating a bootable floppy

Martijn Bakker martijn-syslinux at insecure.nl
Wed Mar 5 08:56:56 PST 2003


On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 04:36:01PM +0000, John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> I'm reading the docs accompanying SYSLINUX where it says:-
>    ++++ CREATING A BOOTABLE LINUX FLOPPY +++

[snip]

> Now before I run this program, I'd like to know which 'one or more Linux 
> kernel files' I'm supposed to copy...

'one or more kernel files' just means that the floppy should have a kernel
on it. The name doesn't really matter, as long as it's the old MS-DOS
8.3 filename.ext format. Also it would be nice to have some sort of initrd
on it, but ofcourse that isn't nessecary (sp?).

grtz, Tijn

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