On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Kenny Kim Leung wrote:
> no no no... not bad floppy. Tried other floppies as well. Any more
guesses?
>
> Basically my procedure is sth like this:
> 1. zeroed out /dev/ramdisk, mounted it and created everything on it w/
/bin
> /dev /etc /lib /mnt /proc /sbin /tmp /usr /var
> 2. umount it and then dd if=/dev/ramdisk bs=1k | gzip -v9 >
> /var/tmp/rootdisk.gz
In the doco, they use a count= on this line to make it gzip the same
number of blocks the fs was made for. If you omit that, I think it
might go astray.
> 3. checked the size of the .gz and it's within the capacity of a
floppy.
> 4. dd if=/var/tmp/rootdisk.gz of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k
>
> I'm wondering if it's the compression thing that doesn't work?? I tried
> rawwrite another UNcompressed .img from redhat onto the same floppy
and, at
> least, it gets booted (though panicked at "no init").
>
> >
> >Lawson
> > >< Microsoft free environment
> >
> >This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
>
> -K. Leung-
> (Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP keys and others)
> -------------------------
> ... have, like, a moment when just being myself
> and my life... right where I am... is, like,
> enough.
>
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