Ars Technica

How to get linux to boot without a floppy, quick newbie question

Here's what happened. Dual booting WinXP and RH8, everything worked great, until I booted up into XP's recovery console, did a fixmbr (meant to do it on a different drive with a different problem) on ...
Ars Technica

Installing Linux from a floppy?

I'm looking for some pointers as to how to go about this. I have an older pentium 120 laptop, just 32 megs of ram. It has no CD-ROM drive and no OS at all on it right now. <P>I basically need to boot ...
Linux Journal

BOEL, Part 2: Kernel Configuration and Booting

Brian's Own Embedded Linux, or BOEL as it is affectionately known, was created as part of the SystemImager Project. SystemImager is a tool used for, well, imaging systems and distributing live updates ...
Linux Journal

Building Tiny Linux Systems with Busybox, Part 2: Building the Kernel

For this example I use Linux kernel version 2.2.17. The 2.4.0-test8 kernel that I tried did not size the RAM disk for the root file system properly, leading to a ``not enough memory'' message at boot ...
ZDNet

Seven ways to set up multi-booting with Windows 8 and Linux

A good bit of the feedback on my most recent post about installing Fedora on my new laptop was along the lines of "instead of telling us what doesn't work, please give us some information about what ...