2.7.4 Custom boot floppies
The task of making a custom boot floppy was greatly aided by the Debian package
boot-floppies, used to be found in the admin section
of the Debian FTP archive for Potato and older. Shell scripts in this package
produce boot floppies in syslinux format. These are MS-DOS
formatted floppies whose master boot records have been altered so that they
directly boot Linux (or whatever other operating system has been defined in the
syslinux.cfg file on the floppy). Other scripts in this package
produce emergency root disks and can even reproduce the base disks.
You will find more information about this in the
/usr/doc/boot-floppies/README file after installing the
boot-floppies package.
