Re: How to make a boot disk?

2004-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
"Juhani Vainio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed Sarge from net. The installation program did not propose to make > starting diskette. I installed grub to mbr and everything is ok, but I want to > make also a starting disket. Mr Murphy, you know. Your sarge CD is your emergency boot disk

Re: how to make a boot disk??

2002-11-29 Thread vanillicat
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 05:52:39PM -0800, damar thapa wrote: > Hi, > > I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time > in Debian. I do not have a floppy to boot the system > in case the kernel panics. How can I do that in > Debian? > > Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to d

how to make a boot disk??

2002-11-29 Thread damar thapa
Hi, I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. How can I do that in Debian? Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to do, "dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192". But it asks for root disk, please ad

Re: How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 29, 2002 11:11 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:39, damar thapa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I > > do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. > > How can I do that in Debian? mk

Re: How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread Nicos Gollan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:39, damar thapa wrote: > Hi, > > I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I > do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. > How can I do that in Debian? Normally, you don'

Re: How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Sam, 2002-11-30 um 01.39 schrieb damar thapa: > Hi, > > I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I do > not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. How can > I do that in Debian? > > Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to do, "dd if=/v

How to make a boot disk in debian?

2002-11-29 Thread damar thapa
Hi, I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. How can I do that in Debian? Looking at /etc/lilo.conf, it seems that I have to do, "dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192". But it asks for root disk, please

Re: How to make a boot disk?

2000-07-20 Thread cls--colo spgs
# cd /boot mkboot /boot/vmlinuz[or the name of your kernel] hth. bentley taylor. // Marshal Wong wrote: > > Hey all, > > You would think that after 2 years of experience with Linux, I would > know how to make a linux boot disk, but I don't. So how do I do it? > :) > > I heard of dd th

Re: How to make a boot disk?

2000-07-20 Thread Tom Pfeifer
The simplest way is to dd the kernel to the floppy disk, and then set the root device (partition). dd if=/path_to_your_kernel of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/your_root_partition You can verify that the root device for the floppy disk kernel is set correctly by using this command: rdev /d

How to make a boot disk?

2000-07-20 Thread Marshal Wong
Hey all, You would think that after 2 years of experience with Linux, I would know how to make a linux boot disk, but I don't. So how do I do it? :) I heard of dd the kernel onto disk, but aren't there certain variables that are on the kernel, like the root partition, that must be changed? Any

Re: How to make a boot disk?

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:54:34AM +0800, Liu Chung Him wrote: > Dear All, > > I have forgotten to make a boot disk during installation. > Is there any method to create it again ? > Try liloconfig -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

How to make a boot disk?

1999-08-02 Thread Liu Chung Him
Dear All, I have forgotten to make a boot disk during installation. Is there any method to create it again ? Thank you very much ! Wilson