Re: [newbie] Cannot create bootdisk reprise

2004-02-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 22:44, Lexx wrote: > Excellent. Many thanks. > Lexx Try using smart boot manager for funny boots, i.e. recalcitrant BIOS'es. I always keep a floppy handy...you never know. It's a fine rescue disk for hosed mbr's and such too:) I've got mine from the Slackware9.1 CD

Re: [newbie] Cannot create bootdisk reprise

2004-02-11 Thread Lexx
> On Wednesday 11 February 2004 22:06, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > > > Lexx > > > > That's because the boot image is too big for a floppy...use the install CD > > for that or make a boot CD for your specific system. > > > > Good luck, > > HarM > > Sorry I didn't get the gist of your question the fir

Re: [newbie] Cannot create bootdisk

2004-02-11 Thread Lexx
> On Wednesday 11 February 2004 20:06, Lexx wrote: > > I'm trying to make a boot disk so that I can put MDK on my old laptop. > > However it appears the total size of the files exceeds 1.44MB! > > It's a brand new floppy so I don't know what I'm doing wrong - please > > help! > > > > Here's the er

Re: [newbie] Cannot create bootdisk reprise

2004-02-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 22:06, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > Lexx > > That's because the boot image is too big for a floppy...use the install CD > for that or make a boot CD for your specific system. > > Good luck, > HarM Sorry I didn't get the gist of your question the first time: You need to m

Re: [newbie] Cannot create bootdisk

2004-02-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 20:06, Lexx wrote: > I'm trying to make a boot disk so that I can put MDK on my old laptop. > However it appears the total size of the files exceeds 1.44MB! > It's a brand new floppy so I don't know what I'm doing wrong - please > help! > > Here's the error: > Unable t

[newbie] Cannot create bootdisk

2004-02-11 Thread Lexx
I'm trying to make a boot disk so that I can put MDK on my old laptop. However it appears the total size of the files exceeds 1.44MB! It's a brand new floppy so I don't know what I'm doing wrong - please help! Here's the error: Unable to properly close mkbookdisk: Formatting /dev/fd0... mount: /de