On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Dec 2000, Michael Butler/CanEast/IBM wrote:
> > dd if=vmlinuz of=dev/fd0 is the hard way?????
> > Linux is like perl, there's more than one way to do almost anything but the
> > command above is pretty simple. What's the easier command that you use?
> >
> Well, I'd *guess* that more than just the kernel is put on the boot
> floppy. Matter of fact, I'm *pretty* sure there is more than just the
> kernel on the boot floppy, and "mkbootdisk" puts those extra files on
> there (things like info on where to look for the rest of the system,
> etc.)
> John
using "dd" will let you create a boot floppy with *just* a kernel, from
which you can boot.
using "mkbootdisk" certainly does give you more than that, as michael
describes above. to see exactly what, just realize that it's a
dos floppy and mount it, then check it out.
rday
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