re grub on cdrom

[ray burke]

On 7/17/09, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Bruce Marshall wrote:
>
>  > On Thursday 16 July 2009, ray burke wrote:
>  >> Can someone help
>  >>
>  >> What is the way to copy to bootable cdrom a copy of my
>  >> dual boot xp pro sp3/Kubuntu, so that if I ever corrupt
>  >> the grub I can just load it in via cdrom at boot up time.
>  >> Or is there a procedure to follow to re-create it for my
>  >> dual boot?
>  >
>  > 1)  You are asking for an impossibility.   There is waaaay to much data to
>  > put on a single CD.
>
>
> He's just asking for the _grub_ part.  That isn't so difficult.  After all,
>  it used to fit on a floppy (if you remember them...).  That said, I don't
>  know the answer.  On a USB stick, I think I could do it with a grub-install,
>  but I suspect it's more complicated for a CD.
>
>
>  > Learn grub  and you can probably find a solution that would fit on either
>  > a floppy or a CD.  I used to make myself a bootable floppy but haven't
>  > done so in years because it is very easy to fix grub using live cd's.
>
>
> Yes, that's why I don't actually know how to do it myself anymore :-)
>  --
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> derek
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so no one have any answers for me?

ray