On 28 Aug, Young, Ed wrote: > > I'll bet this has been covered, and I feel shame for not knowing and not > being able to find out how, but > How do I create a custom boot disk? Is there a utility, or just a sequence > of steps? > > Thanx, > > Ed
The package you want it boot-floppies. Be warned, there are some things you need that are not listed in the dependencies for the package. Among other things, the kernel you are running when you build the boot disks needs to have loopback support, minix filesystem support, and possibly a couple of other things I've now forgotten. Worse, an upgrade to the boot-floppies package replaced the Makefile I had customized with a standard one, so I'm not positive about everything I changed to make it work. You'll also need a local copy of the Debian archive, probably on CD-ROM (I NFS mounted our local mirror and that worked, too). The boot-floppies package isn't as easy to use out of the box as many of the other Debian packaged items are, but it does make nice boot disks (I built a set for my laptop when PCMCIA support on the boot disks was broken). HTH, -- Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College
