Login passwords are only tied to a boot disk, however.

I shut the computer down and put the boot disk in the drive and turned the computer back on.

So that's a 150-gig or 170-gig boot disk, and then I have a 250-gig kind of secondary disk.

I mean, the big issue is creating this boot disk to restore from.

Some antivirus software will let you create a special boot disk.

The next step was to run the Linux installation program from the boot disk.

Complete boot disks can be prepared in one operation by an installed operating system; details vary.

I had to create two more floppy boot disks.

A boot disk, for example, might not contain the driver.

Is there a way that we know yet to create a boot disk when you don't have the installer file?