FLoppy boot for Ubuntu live CD

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

David Hummel wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:56:51AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
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>>I've just burned a copy of the Ubuntu live CD, but the machine I want
>>to run it on isn't equipped for booting from CD. Please tell me how to
>>boot the Ubuntu live CD from floppy: I can't find any reference in the
>>docs.
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>You could try the RIP rescue floppy:
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>http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
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>Here's the floppy image:
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>http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/floppy.syslinux.bin
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>It will supposedly allow you to boot any CD.
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>-David
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David,

Thanks for the tip: it's a handy rescue floppy, and I'll keep it on hand.

Although it allows me to mount the cd-rom, I can't _boot_ from the 
cdrom, and I think this is a BIOS issue. If I try to pass a parameter to 
it, it seems to mangle it with an 8.3 filename restriction:

linux initrd=/dev/hde1/install/initrd.gz comes out as

"image not found: /dev/hde.1/i" (note the added period)

This problem is -not- unique to the RIP disk; I get the same result when 
I use the Debian Rescue floppy, i.e., it mangles the file name into an 
8.3 format and truncates it.

All suggestions welcome: I'm running a Dell Poweredge 600SC.

Bill

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