How do you create a boot disk in Linux?
Most modern Linux distributions do not have boot floppies to start the installation; they assume that your computer is capable of booting from a CD (which it likely is). Debian is one of the few exceptions. The boot floppies can be downloaded from the Debian website. Note that the latest release doesn't support this, but the older stable release does.Building your own Linux boot floppy isn't terribly difficult, but it will require you to compile your own kernel (the kernels found in most distributions are too large to fit on a single floppy). You would compile the kernel, put it on a floppy disk, add the SYSLINUX bootloader, and add a menu file for it. You would then add additional files for the programs and boot scripts, or create a separate floppy with the files, and specify that as the root in the bootloader (root=/dev/fda).