Building a Linux Boot Disk with SysLinux and BusyBox


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Downloads:

Student Handout (PDF version of script)
MakeDisk.sh (the actual shell script)

Tom Fawcett's "Linux Bootdisk HOWTO"

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bootdisk-HOWTO/
http://linuxlots.com/~fawcett/Bootdisk-HOWTO/

Kurt Theis' instructions, file systems, binaries, and images.

http://landfall.net/Linux_Boot_Disk.html

SysLinux

http://syslinux.zytor.com/

BusyBox

http://busybox.net/

Floppy Linux Distributions

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/