Booting from floppy to install 8.1

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Thu Jul 29 09:17:28 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:50:12AM -0700, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> I'm trying to solve a chicken-egg problem.
<snip>
> Is there a reasonable way to build the proper boot/loader file for
> an 8.1 boot floppy using a 6.x or 7.x system?

Install 8.1 in an emulator like qemu or virtualbox to create the floppy images?

Roland
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