[CentOS] more: Have install diskette for 3.0, but can't find the .img for 4.0

Leonard Isham leonard.isham at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 03:57:42 UTC 2005


On 4/18/05, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> At 10:55 PM 4/18/2005, Collins Richey wrote:
> >On 4/18/05, Leonard Isham <leonard.isham at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > My understanding is that the kernel and initrd are too big to fit on a
> > > floppy anymore.
> > >
> >
> >Yes, that's the cold hard truth.
> >
> >If you need to do maintenance to a system that has a usable kernel and
> >initrd, perhaps you could create a grub boot floppy. The wave of the
> >future is boot from CDROM.
> 
> A techie at a company I consult for, gave me a boot diskette that is a
> smart boot manager and can force a boot from the CD even though the CD is
> not bootable.
> 
> Worked like a charm.
> 
> I will get more info on this and post it here.  Perhaps it could be added
> to the FAQ....

Looks interesting...
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html

download link is broken on page... I used:
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/download.html
YMMV

-- 
Leonard Isham, CISSP 
Ostendo non ostento.



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