On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, der.hans wrote:

> Not floppies, but look at the bootable business card,
> http://www.lnx-bbc.org/, Knoppix and the install disk for most any
> distribution.
>
> Boards should be bootable off a USB attached device, then floppies can go
> away :).
>
> There's also the Knoppix networked boot if your box will boot off ethernet.
>
> Search for tom's boot/root and bootable business card and you'll probably
> come up with a list of rescue systems.

Thanks for the response.

In particular, I need a floppy because thats the only thing this old
hardware will boot from (other than hard disk).

By the way, I have made several live CDs using NetBSD. I use them when I
give presentations and teach classes; and they provide XFree86 and a wide
variety of demo and useful rescue and security software.

I have tried and used many different rescue floppies. I was hoping that I
could find a floppy image ready to use that I can use to fdisk, mkfs, copy
files to new filesystem (either over network or from a CD), and then run
lilo.

I do see that mulinux can probably do this, but it doesn't come in a
ready-to-use image. I will build mulinux using its mu ...

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/