[lug] "boot floppy" CD creation recommendations

[Bear Giles]

D. Stimits wrote:
> I never tried this, but it would be a cheap and easy test...put a 
> floppy in the drive, , and do a grub-install to the floppy which 
> points at the grub partition. Then create a file from the floppy via:
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/testboot.iso bs=512
No floppy drive.

The 'dd' would definitely not work.  The 'el torino' extension to 
ISO9660 allows you to specify a 1200, 1440 or 2880 kb floppy image that 
compliant BIOSes can treat as a boot floppy.  So if I had a floppy I 
could try dd'ing the disk into a file that I then pass into mkisofs, but 
I don't have a floppy drive on that system.

I remember reading about people writing boot sectors to USB drives and I 
have a USB floppy.  Hmmm....