RE: Self-Extracting Boot Floppy - Is it possible?

["Mark W. Knecht" <mknecht controlnet com>]

Patrick,
   Thanks for the pointer. That has worked nicely. At least I have created
the self extracted floppy here and it seems to work fine. Now if he is
successful I'm home free.

   Thanks very much for helping.

Cheers,
Mark

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Subject: Re: Self-Extracting Boot Floppy - Is it possible?



You could try WinImage.  It will make an exact copy of the disk and create
a self-extracting image.  WinImage can be downloaded from www.download.com.
It's free to try.

Patrick Androsik






"Mark W. Knecht" <mknecht controlnet com>@redhat.com on 05/29/2002 10:37:12
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Hi,
   I have a friend that I'm trying to help over the internet. He needs a
boot floppy, but seems unable to generate one himself from the Linux
instructions, and so far I can't see what he's doing wrong. One solution
was
for me to simply make one and mail it to him, which I will likely do today,
but in this internet age that seems so old fashioned... ;-)

   Does anyone know of a tool that would allow me to take my Linux boot
floppy and create a self-extracting image that could be executed on a
Windows or DOS system (what he has running today) and would generate the
same boot floppy at his end? That way I could just mail him a file and he'd
be up and running today.

   I took a quick look at WinRAR and didn't find any instructions. I have
not looked at WinZip yet.

   Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers,
Mark



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