[techtalk] Stand Alone boot floppy

Phil Savoie Phil.Savoie at learnix.com
Wed May 16 15:12:34 EST 2001


Hi All,

I know how to make a boot floppy, using mkbootdisk.  This works just fine, 
but requires the system to have the kernel located at the right spots and 
uses the disk based information to get running.  I would like to show them 
how to make a boot disk that does not require a working system to support it. 
Any ideas?

Phil

(The premise is to have a boot disk with fdisk on it, so that machines can
be wiped clean without booting a full operating system to do so)
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