If you solved it, as people were talking, please mark as solved. Also, back to physical media, I'm learning this part too, slightly. OK. This will take some explanation.

I messed around with simple operating system creation before, way before modern linux can do what it can do. Particularly, "floppy disk operating systems". 3.5". I learned, that although it is NOT customary to split a floppy disk up into partitions, it's possible (with MBR partition tables). My operating system I was working on, uses partitions on a floppy disk, and would on a hard drive, if I'd learned how. So that brings up a question about media. Is it totally impossible via methods that have roughly already been invented, to have partitions on a installation media such as a CD-ROM or DVD? Or is it possible, to have a different filesystm, with partitions, but nobody does it? I'm talking about outside of Linux, in which today, it would make no sense to do it. Just a question, because when developing an OS, having less image variations is better, so creating one which always had a partition table, might be prefferable, under some not yet created OS. But that's way above what I learned thus far.

By they way, I still have over 50 working floppy disks and a drive to use them with.

That's cool des_a I've about ~10 HD floppies in a anti-static sheet here and want to keep them. Slackware-15.0 is running on a SilverReef genuine Intel desktop board (P4 Northwood) and i flashed the BIOS (years ago) with an update via this media! I think you can find informations about splitting medias by taking a look at old Slackware versions.. But it's just an idea, that's far for me now