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Old 08-25-2004, 10:57 PM   #1
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Boot Floopy for Whitebox linux


During the install it asks you if you want to create a boot floppy, but it doesnt give you the opportunity to create one. its the latest version downloaded from whiteboxlinux.org.
Hoe do I create one?
 
Old 08-26-2004, 10:06 AM   #2
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"During the install it asks you if you want to create a boot floppy, but it doesnt give you the opportunity to create one. its the latest version downloaded from whiteboxlinux.org.
Hoe do I create one?"


This tutotial tells you how to make a grub boot floppy.
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/man...ot-floppy.html

Section 8 of this tutorial tells you how to make a lilo boot floppy.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html

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