Hi...I dunno if my experience will be of any help here...
When I installed 7.1 I managed to blow away the DOS partition on my hard
drive (yay me), thus losing Windows (this hadn't happened with 7.0)...I used
fdisk to refomat only the DOS partition, and didn't touch the Linux or the
swap
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Hi all,
I'm very new to this stuff.
I finally have a Mandrake 7.1 distribution up and running at home.
I'd like to create a "rescue" or "bootdisk" diskette. {I'm planning to
re-install the Win98 portion of my "dual boot" machine - but I'm worried
Yeah there is
at the command prompt type:
$ mkbootdisk 2.2.14-15mdk
Noting:
-replace 2.2.14-15mdk with the kernel version for 7.1
-you need a floppy in the drive 8)
When you re-install Win98 the LILO or GRUB *WILL* be lost.
Also note that if your cdrom is bootable you can use the Mandrake Install
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From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Subject:Re: [newbie] Make Rescue/Bootdisk?
Sure, have a floppy ready and type, mkbootdisk $(uname -r)
"Luther, Ron" wrote:
Hi all,
I'm very new to this stuff.
Is there an 'easy' way to do this? [make a rescue diskette]
Open up a terminal window if you are not at the command line already
and become root with the "su" command. Then you can just use the
"mkbootdisk" command. You need to
Thanks Jim, KDM, Tom!!
I'm reading as fast as I can ... but this list is a BIG help!
Ron
-Original Message-
From: Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Subject:Re: [newbie] Make Rescue/Bootdisk?
"mkbootdisk&quo
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Luther, Ron wrote:
I finally have a Mandrake 7.1 distribution up and running at home.
Congratulations. A smart move.
I'd like to create a "rescue" or "bootdisk" diskette. {I'm planning to
re-install the Win98 portion of my "dual boot" machine - but I'm worried
about the
Ronasuming that you let it install the default grub
bootloader the below is cut and pasted from the command:
info grub
and was found in the FAQ's section.
Alan
How to create a GRUB boot floppy with the menu interface?
The easiest way is:
1. Create filesystem in your floppy
