Boot floppy
Making a Boot Floppy (disk) in Linux.
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Boot floppy is meant to boot your Operating System through floppy. The disk contains only the compressed kernal, not the whole operating system.
Insert an empty diskette, format it, create a file system on it and mount it:
fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 (** To Format floppy **)
mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0 (** Make the File System ***)
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt (** Mount the floppy **)
Although the basic procedure is same but depending upon the OS, there is a small variation:
<b>Debian only</b>: With Debian 2.x, use /dev/fd0u1440 instead of /dev/fd0H1440. With Debian 1.x, use /dev/fd0h1440, with a lower case h.
<b>Debian only</b>: With Debian 2.x, use superformat instead of fdformat. You can ...
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Boot floppy process is noted.
Text Editor: Create a File on a Newly Formatted Floppy Disk
1. Using a text editor, create a file that is between 5,000 and 6,000 bytes long on a newly formatted floppy disk. Calculate the file directory and FAT entries for the type of disk used, and check your calculations using absolute sector program sector.asm.
2. Write a program that will perform the DOS DIR command for a disk that contains four test files.
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