Other Help Topics :: booting 0.8.2 from floppy

Since I don't have a CD burner and want to run
Linux on my old IBM Thinkpad, I went ahead and bought
a copy of DSL 0.8.2.

Since the laptop can't boot from CD, I hoped to find
a floppy boot image for that version, but don't see anything.

I did find 0.8.0 floppy boot images, but seem unable
to save them to a floppy from the ftp sites.

So, can I use another floppy image to boot from?
If so, how do I save it to my floppy?

My PC runs RH7.1, so Linux commands are doable.
The browser I'm using is Mozilla 0.7

The boot-0.8.0.img image IS for the DSL 0.8.2 CD you purchased..

Here is a link to it..
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub....8.0.img

after downloading, use this command in linux to write the image to the floppy..

dd if=boot-0.8.0.img of=/dev/fd0

Make sure you are using a known good or new floppy...

73
ke4nt

or if you dont have linux install get this here

hf!

Thanks for the info.

Last night, after I posted, I was able to download it
to a new floppy directly, which apparently doesn't work.

When I put the floppy into the laptop, it came up
with the "non-system disk" error. Don't know if I
need to download to the hard drive (in RH 7.1
on my PC) THEN do the "dd..." commands to write it
to the floppy. I know I have rawrite somewhere, but
want to do it purely in Linux if I can...

Gotta figure out what I did wrong.

I am pretty sure RedHat would have the wget and dd commands. So, yes, do first download the boot floppy image and then you write it to a floppy.

So step 1, download the boot floppy image using the following command

wget http://www.ibiblio.org/pub....8.0.img

Step 2. As user root, place a new or known good floppy, ( no bad sectors ) into the first floppy drive.
Now write the boot floppy image to the floppy using the following command:

dd if=boot-0.8.0.img of=fd0

Assuming RedHat has these two commands, this 2 step process will produce a boot floppy for DSL v0.8.x

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