1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

hello , i have sun sparc machine with sunos2.7 , the machine has a cdrom but no floppy drive , it is networked with windows machine , from where i can use ftp and telnet. can i use floppy drive of windows machine and create a boot image(of unix) on that drive, using ftp? thanx raju (4 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, My dear friends, I am trying to install red hat linux. I have downloaded its disc1. On the instructions page, the next stage is to make the boot disk, so that I can boot from the floppy. However, I am unable to locate the boot image iso file. I tried on google, but I got a few files which... (3 Replies)

3. AIX

Dear Sirs, I would like to make a Boot Floppy for the RS6k F30. Somebody can help me? Spart (1 Reply)

4. Ubuntu

there is probably another post about this, i just can't find it on unix.com or google. basically, i am trying to make a boot floppy via CLI/terminal. the problem is that i use an external drive. when i do the first couple of steps, i get rejected. when i do the mounting and unmounting, all the... (4 Replies)

5. Linux

Hello to everyone, I am new to linux and I want to move to this system after bad experiences with windows. I have also a particular problem. An old laptop is probably able to handle just linux at this point of its life. The cdrom is gone, the bios doesn't have usb boot support, there is no... (6 Replies)

6. Red Hat

Is there a way to create a boot floppy for a fedora 13 system? Rescue disk image from the official boot.iso is too big. (1 Reply)

7. SCO

Anyone here using Unixware 2.x? I want to try some binary testing on this system regarding DG/UX binaries. (4 Replies)

8. IP Networking

hi I'm looking for absolutly a minimal Unix or Linux installed on just 1 boot floppy with dd and nfs client. (3 Replies)

9. SCO

OS = Openserver 5.0.5 Ran 'mkdev fd' and made emergency boot floppy (boot and root). Choose custom kernel, not generic. However kernel on the 1.44 floppy did not see both hard disks, it only saw the first one (SCSI id 0), and not SCSI id 1 (second disk) Q. Is this a limitation of emergency... (5 Replies)

10. SCO

In my previous thread post (which is also the most recent on this SCO forum), I mentioned that we have an HP DL380G5 server running SCO Unixware 7.11 which has unable to boot with error “FATAL BOOT ERROR: Can't load stage 3”. .. Unfortunately no media is available for the machine and I think the... (1 Reply)