Need to boot from floppy to install from USB
I have a laptop that is older, before they allowed booting from USB, and the CD-ROM drive no longer works, but it does have a floppy drive.
I have been able to get Debian, Manjaro, antiX and Puppy to load via plop linux and unetbootin, but I can't get Frugalware to boot from USB that way. Frugalware does allow booting from USB, so it seems to me, that there ought to be a way to make it work. I downloaded copies of bootfloppy.img bootfloppy-usb.img bootfloppy-4.4.img pdlfloppy.img.gz frugal_grub.sh frugal_usb.tar/gz So far. I've tried the boot* ones, and they are all trying to load KNOPPIX from the looks of it, and the cfg files are not in a text format that I could just change, it doesn't look. what {'d really like to do is to be able to do a grub boot from floppy, and just be able to put in the details for the boot into a configuration file. Any ideas of a way to get the USB boot running? |
http://frugalware.org/docs/stable/install.html
just download the iso image and put it onto your usb. The "know-how" is described on that page. |
Why not do a frugal install with unetbootin & boot disk from hdd?
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/une...i/installmodes Quote:
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I think you can put plop on the hard drive rather easily from floppy.
I'd consider pxe/gpxe/ipxe instead. Might be able to use grub or grub4dos on a floppy to boot to usb. In all this, it might be easier to get a usb to ide enclosure to load it from a different system. |
pxe booting might be the simpler route.
You should be able to put grub on a floppy. You might have to grub command mode it to boot a grub on a usb. GRUB> insmod uhci GRUB> insmod usb GRUB> ls GRUB> insmod part_msdos GRUB> insmod ext2 GRUB> configfile (usb0a,msdos2)/boot/grub/grub.cfg Or where ever your grub on USB is located according the output of ls on the grub CLI. You might have to insmod ohci depending on your USB chipset. And a machine that old probably need a non-pae kernel. |
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