Boot floppy(boot cdr?)

[wonderinguy34]

I currently have Mandrake installed and boot it via a floppy ,but it takes sooo long to boot this way.I had been using XOSL ,but the boot menu confuses the wife
Is it possible to make a bootable CD and burn the floppy contents to it and boot this way (I'm assuming the CDROM would be faster then the Floppy)

I might try it anyway ,but was just wondering if anyones tried this yet?

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Win98se/Mandrake 8.1
IwillKK266+
VolcanoII/RadioShack paste
266DDR T-bird @ 1.4
384 MB PC133
Matrox G450 32MB AGP

[greengoose1]

I am trying to make up my mind on whether to install Mandrake or Redhat, but in reading I understood Mandrake boots up automatically. I got this from the fact that if you have two OS on you computer Linux can control the dual system on initialization. Am I missing something?

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[mikek147]

I'm not framiliar with XOSL, but lilo can be configured with a simple menu that you design. -mk

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[wonderinguy34]

XOSL is simple as well,I set it to boot Windows automatically after a predetermined time,but my wife can never seem to understand whats going on.With the boot floppy ,linux never enters the equation and the wife doesn't keep asking "what do I do now?" Guess I'll try the boot CD idea and see if it works ,heck CDRs are cheap.

[tironsi]

I have used Easy CD Creator to burn a CD with booting capabilities. All it asks for is an image of a bootable floppy. I used a Win98 boot floppy, but I imagine that it would work with other boot-floppy images. This was of course under Windows, but I imagine that's what you are dual booting.