install grub to floppy during install

[Martin Maney]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 10:20:55AM -0400, Dale Kosan wrote:
> the install procedure right now on a older p3. The bios does not 
> support booting from second drive and I can not install grub to the mbr 
> of the first drive. The screen says I can install grub to any device 
> including floppy, but it does not tell me what to enter for the floppy 
> drive, so far I have tried the following all without success:

Argh!  Sorry, if I'd been more awake (difficult at that time of night),
I might not have overlooked the obvious answer:

  Look at the following examples and explanations:

       (fd0)

  First of all, GRUB requires that the device name be enclosed with ( and
  ). The fd part means that it is a floppy disk. The number 0 is the
  drive number, which is counted from zero. This expression means that
  GRUB will use the whole floppy disk.

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Naming%20convention

Using Linux device names during an installation has always been dicey
IME.

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