On Mon, 29 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Mon, 29 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie:
> I make a boot disk by using rdev and then simply coping the kernel to
> the floppy. Here is the steps:
> Tell the kernel your root partition with rdev "location of kernel"
> "location of root partition"
> example- rdev /boot/vmlinuz2.0.36 /dev/fd0
> Copy the kenel to a floppy with cp /boot/vmlinuz2.0.36 /dev/fd0
> Now just boot from the floppy.
>
Hm. I may be terribly wrong here, but this looks like if you are doing the
same thing twice...
> I have a question about doing it this way? ......Yes I know I suggested it :)
> When I try to mount this floppy it will not mount. It says the file
> system is not correct and I have tried several. I use fdformat
> /dev/fd0H1440 to format the floppy. When I copy the kernel to it it
> asks if I want to overwrite /dev/fd0 (I say yes). Why does it ask
> this?
Most possibly you created a raw diskimage. There is no filesystem on the
disk. Therefore it can't be mounted. This makes sense since a extfs2
formatted floppy disk is only some 1.3 MB or even less. So if you insist
on using an fs on a floppy disk use a primitive (and therefore small) one
like FAT or Minixfs (the latter indeed often used for Unix boot disks).
> Thanks,
> Aaron Winters
> Electronic Imaging Manager
> Garner Printing
> http://camalott.com/~garner
tom
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