to floppy or not to floppy

[john_h]

> If your BIOS does not support el torito booting from CD, you
> can create a bootable floppy disk by issuing (on Linux) dd
> if=/cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k or, in case of
> DOS, use the rawrite.exe program provided in the KNOPPIX
> directory on CD.


This is a quote from the 3.4 cheat codes. So why are there
posts complaining that booting 3.4 from floppy is not
supported? Am I missing something?

[Bernd Blaauw]

perpahs there no longer is a floppy image?
main purpose of the floppy image was to serve as a boot-image for bootable cdrom, and not as a diskette image which you could write to a real diskette.

Now that Isolinux is used as cd-bootloader, instead of Syslinux, there no longer is a floppy.img file

not too difficult recreating these floppy-images, I think.