[lug] floppy install images

[Mr Viggy]

I don't think that'll work.  The boot floppy images I've used in the 
past are usually a boot disk, with some low level drivers, and a kernel 
disk.  I don't think you can just cat them together.

I'm assuming that the floppies are Linux?  Can you download an ISO 
image?  I know that the Slackware ISO's are bootable, and they don't go 
immediately into the setup.

Viggy

The Matt wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 09:51, Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
>>I have a new laptop that has an ntfs partition on it that I need to
>>shrink (so I can put Linux on it).  I have two boot floppies but no
>>floppy drive.
>>
>>Does anyone know of a way to take the two floppy images, make them into
>>one 2.88 image and put it on cdr (as the boot image)?
> 
> 
> Well, if they were split using "split" the unsplit method is usually
> cat.  So, you *should* be able to do:
> 
> cat floppy1.img floppy2.img > big.img
> 
> and the it should be one big image that could be burned to a mini-cd or
> the like.  I think.
> 
> I suppose try cat'ing the two images together and do a test mount with
> loop:
> 
> mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 big.img /dev/cdrom
> 
> If that looks OK, it should burn well.
> 
> Note, though, I have no idea if this works.  I'm just talking off the
> top of my head.
> 
> Matt
> 
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