Making boot floppy

2004-03-06 Thread David Tiefenbrunn
Hi again, I found the YaST utility for making a boot floppy, but I get the error: "Selected image doesn't exist on installed medium." I probably should just get an install CD? Or download my own complete version? Thank you, Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &qu

Re: boot floppy

2002-08-11 Thread Haines Brown
Ray, Thanks, but no progress yet. I used dd to copy to an unmounted ext2-formatted floppy the files created by mkbootdisk: boot.msg, initrd.msg, ldlinux.sys, syslinux.cfg, and vmlinuz. I also copied lsh (Little Shell, which I can run and get a "C" type prompt). The syslinux.cfg files was edited a

boot floppy (mkbootdisk)

2002-08-11 Thread Haines Brown
I had a nice bootable floppy that was self-contained (held a kernel), but I inadvertantly overwrote it and need to create another. I used mkbootdisk , and it works in the sense that it holds a kernel that boots my machine and loads my operating system from hd. However, I want to have it load a