[ale] creating a 1.2 5.25" boot disk

[Gary Maltzen]

I would have suggested making that (hda1) about 2MB in size then
reallocating that to be mounted as the /boot subdirectory; this would allow
you to use a conventional DOZE MBR, installing LILO in hda1 and VMLINUZ in
/boot; I do this as policy thus ensuring bootability even on huge drives (my
circa-1992 486 has a single 12.7GB drive).

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


Just thought I'd share with the list how I resolved this problem.
Apparently you can not create a 1.2 boot disk for RH.  You can install
RH from a dos partition.  What I did was create a small dos partition
(25M), boot to dos, mount the cdrom and execute
d:\dosutils\autoboot.bat, which boots the Linux installation via
loadlin.  I'll go back and make the dos partition another swap
partition, although I don't know how useful it will be at that size.

So, you can install RH on a computer with a 1.2 floppy. :)