[ale] creating a 1.2 5.25" boot disk

[Gary Maltzen]

The floppy boot sector will have the floppy (2,0) specified as boot device
in the bytes 508-509, you'll probably need to
  1) run rdev to set the partition to boot from the hard disk, or
  2) manually change those bytes to (3,1) for hda1, or
  3) add "root=hda1" to the boot command.

DOS floppies usually have the number of heads and sectors in the boot sector
as well; don't know what impact that will have (since you're booting from
HD).

Go for it ... and let us know

-----Original Message-----
 From: Wandered Inn <esoteric at denali.atlnet.com>

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???