installing from floppy

["Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The handbook doesn't speak much of install methods other than 
"Installation from CD" (chapter 2). 

For hardware that doesn't do PXE by itself, a grub floppy lets you boot 
off a tftp-serving dfly system, like the upcoming pxe-savvy installer 
CD.

Rahul's DIY link: 
http://www.openbg.net/sto/os/xml/netboot.html
mentioned here:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2004-01/msg00272.html

Another resource -- the online boot-disk creator: 
http://i30www.ira.uka.de/~ud3/mkgrubdisk/

I think this fits best in chapter 2, though it's also relevant to 19.7 
"Diskless Operation".

There's also 12-3. "A Script for Creating a Bootable Floppy":
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~justin/handbook/backup-basics.html#AEN14601
While it probably works for anyone with experience, it's just a rescue 
disk (as advertised) and not an installer.

Perhaps it's best to wait for the pxe-serving Installer before updating 
the Handbook.

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/Jonas Sundström.                 www.kirilla.com