Re: snapshots are broken

[David Cuthbert <dacut@xxxxxxxxx>]

Galen Sampson wrote:
> Define "BIOS disk".  I would like to be able to boot from a floppy to 
> install.  The machine I have running dragonfly doesn't support booting 
> from a CD at all....

How about making a (non-DF-specific) floppy which boots the rest of the 
OS from a CD?

I've seen (and used) a few Linux installs where we did this (via LILO) 
to boot from a secondary partition on a HD, when installing LILO to the 
MBR was not permissible.  I don't know how different El Torito is from a 
normal boot record, though.

Another option that I fancy is to use a Compact Flash card as a boot 
drive.  I don't have much experience with this; but I did have a 386 
happily booting FreeBSD without any HDs, only a CF card in IDE emulation 
mode.