Unfortunately, as others will explain you, that is not possible. You must reduce the size of your files to fit into a 1.44 Mb disk. The two floppy setup (ie. two physical floppies) will also not work. -----Original Message----- From: Roberto De Leo [mailto:deleo at unica.it] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 7:22 PM To: syslinux at zytor.com Subject: [syslinux] booting from floppy Hi, I have a very elementary question for which unfortunately I cannot find any answer by my own even after checking both syslinux and lilo docs: how to tell syslinux to boot from a floppy but to look for the initrd.gz file in a second floppy? The sum of my kernel and initrd.gz sizes is too big to fit in a single floppy and the two floppies mechanism seems to me the only solution. BTW, of course I do not have two floppy drives so syslinux should be able to load the initrd only after loading the kernel from the first floppy. Thanks, Roberto De Leo _______________________________________________ SYSLINUX mailing list Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com Unsubscribe or set options at: http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux
Why not boot from a CD? -----Original Message----- From: Luis.F.Correia [mailto:Luis.F.Correia at seg-social.pt] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:54 AM To: syslinux at zytor.com Subject: RE: [syslinux] booting from floppy Unfortunately, as others will explain you, that is not possible. You must reduce the size of your files to fit into a 1.44 Mb disk. The two floppy setup (ie. two physical floppies) will also not work. -----Original Message----- From: Roberto De Leo [mailto:deleo at unica.it] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 7:22 PM To: syslinux at zytor.com Subject: [syslinux] booting from floppy Hi, I have a very elementary question for which unfortunately I cannot find any answer by my own even after checking both syslinux and lilo docs: how to tell syslinux to boot from a floppy but to look for the initrd.gz file in a second floppy? The sum of my kernel and initrd.gz sizes is too big to fit in a single floppy and the two floppies mechanism seems to me the only solution. BTW, of course I do not have two floppy drives so syslinux should be able to load the initrd only after loading the kernel from the first floppy. Thanks, Roberto De Leo _______________________________________________ SYSLINUX mailing list Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com Unsubscribe or set options at: http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux _______________________________________________ SYSLINUX mailing list Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com Unsubscribe or set options at: http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux
Hi, I have a very elementary question for which unfortunately I cannot find any answer by my own even after checking both syslinux and lilo docs: how to tell syslinux to boot from a floppy but to look for the initrd.gz file in a second floppy? The sum of my kernel and initrd.gz sizes is too big to fit in a single floppy and the two floppies mechanism seems to me the only solution. BTW, of course I do not have two floppy drives so syslinux should be able to load the initrd only after loading the kernel from the first floppy. Thanks, Roberto De Leo