similar to: booting Linux from CD/Floppy/Network

Hello, I have been struggling for long with the above. The purpose behind attempting the same is to have a handsfree install from the first CD (bootable) including a customised kernel and application. There will be no user intervention required whatsoever during installation. In this regard this is what I am trying to do. At the end of a manual install of the above distro I can create a auto

I''m trying to install Windows NT Terminal Server v4 with Citrix add-on. The problem is, the Terminal Server CD isn''t bootable * it came with three floppy disks. I''ve make images of the floppies and mounted the ISOs just fine. I add the paths to the Xen setup and indeed it does start the installation. Unfortunately, the setup asks me to "Insert Setup Disk

I've got a machine running CentOS 3.5 with an Intel D865GBF motherboard and I've been having an occasional "event" where disk-intensive activity (such as running "yum check-update" or starting up OpenOffice) causes the load average to spike and X11 to become unresponsive (as in, the pointer won't even track the mouse) for a few seconds. The machine always recovers

I am currently having problems persuading 3.0.4 (binary dist) to boot a virtual machine from a virtual floppy when running in HVM mode. Although I can boot a real computer from a real drive with my floppy image, with Xen it merely hangs after saying: HVMAssist BIOS, 1 cpu, $Revision: 1.138 $ $Date: 2005/05/07 15:55:26 $ If I give it a completely blank floppy image, it does the same

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to create a PXE setup with floppy images for all needed utilities - for example, BIOS flash for various motherboards, disk diagnostic tools, memtest86+, etc. I've gotten memtest86+ to work (using the .bin), and some of the disk images work - however, some disk images will not boot. All of the images were pulled from working, bootable

I have never used SYSLINUX and don't really know much about Linux either, but want to give it a try, and thought I would start by creating a bootable Linux floppy using these instructions from syslinux.doc:- ++++ CREATING A BOOTABLE LINUX FLOPPY +++ In order to create a bootable Linux floppy using SYSLINUX, prepare a normal MS-DOS formatted floppy. Copy one or more Linux kernel files

It is now possible to build a bootable floppy image which contains HDT, with my patch applied to Erwans HDT branch: http://git.zytor.com/?p=users/erwan/hdt.git;a=commit;h=16b37fe2266c920087f88cdec94243b71218d871 Unpack the Syslinux archive and build whole Syslinux first, then cd to ./com32/hdt/ and make hdt.img $ make $ cd ./com32/hdt/ $ make hdt.img Now you have a 2.88 MB floppy image which

Hello, I'd be very grateful if someone can help me with the process of creating bootable floppy images to be used with isolinux/memdisk. I usually do the following: label image kernel memdisk append initrd=/bootdisk/image.img floppy (lines in isolinux.cfg file) Sometimes I pass memdisk the c/h/s parameters, depending on the image size. I have learned from this mailing list how to

Hi, Thanks a lot for your exceptional work.... I guess many people dealing with bootable CD's just could'nt do anything without isolinux... However I've got a small problem. In fact the problem is maybe due to my BIOS (Phoenix on an HP Vectra VL800), and maybe due to isolinux / memdisk, I don't know. Generally speaking, take any floppy, format it under Win2K, copy from your hard

Hi, The link given in your http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php#config page points to the http://www.argontechnology.ca/rbfg/index.shtml site. This site talks only of Win2k and .Net server. There is no mention of GNU/Linux. Is it possible to use rbfg.exe to create a pxelinux bootable stack on a floppy. If so how ? Rom-O-Matic has a pxe loadable ROM image. Is there a way to use this to

I am trying to install Debian Linux on an an old Intel Classic R+ computer that uses an internal Yamaha SCSI CD writer model CRW8424S connected to an Adaptec ISA SCSI card (I think its a 1542CP). The CD writer is is the only device connected to the SCSI card. The computer has one hard drive connected to the on-board IDE interface, a 1.44MB 3 1/2 inch floppy and a 1.2MB 5 1/4 inch floppy. The hard

I am in the process of trying to update a bootable Linux CD that I initally built some time ago using RedHat 7.3 and syslinux 1.x (I believe that x = 52, but this doesn't seem to be relevant). In order to do this, I first built a floppy disk image and made it bootable by running "syslinux -s" on the image; then I incorporated this image into a CD using "mkisofs -b boot.img -c

hi there, some problem: -setup dhcp -setup tftp -setup pxelinux (?!) -dhcp: ok, client get correkt ip and so on -tftp: ok, client downloads pxelinux.0 -pxelinunx: seemed to be ok bootscreen: <snip> boot: loading memdisk... loading xyz.img Ready. the problem is, the image do not start. after the "ready" prompt nothing happens. the image file has generated from a bootable floppy

On 4/15/20 11:16 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > These plugins have in common that they store either a list of > allocated strings or a list of constant strings. Define either > string_vector or const_string_vector as appropriate and use it to > store these lists. > --- The commit message mentions strings... > +++ b/plugins/floppy/virtual-floppy.h > @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ >

I'm reading the docs accompanying SYSLINUX where it says:- ++++ CREATING A BOOTABLE LINUX FLOPPY +++ In order to create a bootable Linux floppy using SYSLINUX, prepare a normal MS-DOS formatted floppy. Copy one or more Linux kernel files to it, then execute the DOS command: syslinux [-s] a: Now before I run this program, I'd like to know which 'one or more Linux

I realize this is probably the wrong list but since some of the principals this list deals with are similar in nature I figured it could't hurt. What I am looking to do: Provide a solution to either boot from a floppy disk, establish a network connection, give user the ability to run utilities such as fdisk and dd. as well as provide the same solution as a PXE bootable image. My

Greetings from beautiful Alabama. You have requested for people to let you know if they are having any problem: I am a professor in the Department of Mathematics, Auburn University. Among other activities, I do a lot of Linux installations on older computers, many of which are old Gateway Pentium Pro boxes which came with Adaptec 2940 SCSI cards and SCSI CD. I have burned several Slackware 8.1

Hello syslinuxers I'm stuck with a scientific problem which gives me headaches: I have a laptop (Gateway MX3410) which has a SD memory card reader. Recently an interesting thought crossed my mind: why don't I setup a 2GB SD card as a harddrive and put some rescue tools on it. So I dug on the net and I came across the idea of using memdisk to boot floppy images without the need of a

Hi there! After reading the last posting about creating a boot disk as non-root, I have a question of my own: Does anyone know a way to produce a floppy/harddisk image able to boot a DOS environment (without using windows, vmware or other tools of that kind)? Is it perhaps even possible to create larger disk images (>2.88MB)? It's no problem to get an image with a DOS filesystem, but

Hi, I bought a USB hard drive, got Mandriva installed on it, and made it bootable with extlinux. Works great on machines that can boot from USB. I also created a boot cd using the instructions in the wiki. This is working too. The only problem with the boot cd is that I had to copy the kernel, initrd, etc. to the cd. This means that whenever I install a new kernel I'll have to create and