[ale] creating a 1.2 5.25" boot disk

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Gary Maltzen wrote:
> 
> DOH!
> 1) The RH5.2 boot diskette is in MSDOS format !!
> 2) The INITRD.IMG and VMLINUZ files together exceed 1.2MB
>    (the *.MSG files are small)
> I would have had to build a new VMLINUZ and INITRD.IMG ...
> 
> I noticed that Slack 3.6 boot was under 1.2MB

Just got a wild idea and thought I'd float it by the list to see if
folks think this is possible.  What I'm thinking of doing is to create a
small partition on the hard drive of this machine, copy the RH 5.2 boot
disk to that partition.  Make it bootable and reboot.  Anyone know if
this will work???

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