klinux cd questions..

[ottawanker]

hey kilowatt, this ones for you..

i own absolutely zero floppy drives (that work).. nadda, none, zero, zilch.

i do own many many ide cdroms that can be used to boot machines... is there anychance of a burnable bootable CD image of klinux?

just wondering, as it would be really useful for me. dont know how much demand there would be, nor how hard it would be for you to do tho..

thanks.

 

[micron]

I would also like to know if it is possible.

 

[Kilowatt]

Hmmmm.... I couldn't tell ya, I've never done it.
When using the rawrite.exe that comes with the Klinux download, it's what puts the bootable kernel & filesystem on the floppy.

You could try it and let me/us know.

You would have to have burner software the would copy everything in a windows and/or linux folder.

You would have to use the rawrite.exe utility, and tell it to make the Klinux.img in a certain folder to burn later.
Do this by selecting a folder instead of the floppy.
(for instance, C:\Where-you-put-the-rawrite-image)
Then burn just the contents of the folder, and not the folder itself.

Make sure you set the motherboard bios to boot CD first.

<<Disclaimer>>
It may or may not work, let us know.

 

[Sukhoi]

I think it's possible...I could try it later if you want me to. From what I remember when making a bootable CD-ROM, it coppies stuff from the bootable floppy to a special bootable section of the CD-ROM which becomes A:, and then the rest of the CD-ROM is the normal CD-ROM drive letter or something like that. So I think Klinux could be put on a floppy, and then the floppy used to make the bootable section of the CD-ROM. I'm not certain of this though.

 

[jatwell]

Should be easily done. Just follow the directions here:

Boot CD FAQ

It has all the needed programs to read a disk image from a floppy and pop that onto a bootable cd....

Heh, I might get industrious tonight and make an ISO that you can download if someone doesn't beat me to it

 

[Kilowatt]

lol

I have thought of doing a Klinux suite of disk images.
One for running a Klinux server, dishing out DHCP, NFS, HTTP Server, pproxy, Linux router and being the Gateway for the other Klinux nodes.

This would probably be booted off CD into a 128MB+ (can we say 512MB?) ramdisk (or a bunch of smaller ramdisks each holding a seperate branch of the filesystem).
The CD would also contain the Klinux node images for various configurations.
/avalible at your freindly Klinux distributor

BUT, I still haven't found time to finish Klinux-v.4 so you all can save your dnetc.ini yet.

But I have been messing with Klinux today.

BUT I have a good size job (7 W2K workstaions) coming up Wed when all the parts all come in, that will keep me busy for a couple days.