[dundee] Grub floppies

[Nistur Effee]

Well, I haven't actually tried booting either my machines off USB butI was thinking of using this as a rescue-disk and general play-toy, so if it's going to boot other computers I'd like that to be a possiblity. Secondly... From what I understand from the article, you install grub(not lilo, haven't used lilo in years) to a directory on your system, add the relevent menu.lst file and stick the whole thing on a floppy. God, I feel so retro using them now.
I don't suppose anyone has a 5 1/4" drive. The last one I had was on an Osbourne1 I believe my mother in her infinite knowledge threw away.

That's a challenge, who's up for trying to make an internet ready machine, running X out of as old hardware as we can?

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Habets" <errandir_news at mph.eclipse.co.uk>
> To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [dundee] Grub floppies
> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 23:28:36 +0100
> 
> 
> Ehh, is your BIOS smart enough to boot from USB? That is usually
> the issue.
> 
> Reading the article has me a bit puzzled. I always boot from my
> large HD which isn't in the BIOS at all using lilo. Been doin that
> for years, so what's the big deal?
> 
> Martin
> 
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 05:46:03AM +0800, Nistur Effee wrote:
> > Argh, I searched for ages and found nothing, then I posted and 
> > straight after I found this:
> > http://linuxgazette.net/108/anonymous.html
> > Ahh well
> > I will be experimenting as soon as my work's handed in tomorrow methinks
> >
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