Effectively the mkbootdisk command builds the image in temp disk space
then uses 'dd' (or cp?) to write to the floppy device. If either there's
not enough space in /tmp or the floppy isn't formatted ok you're going to
have problems. If /tmp is full firstly try deleting stuff then try
creating /home/tmp with same permissions then "mv /tmp /tmp.old; ln -s
/home/tmp /tmp" You're probably going to need at least half a meg of temp
space before it does the compression.
It looks more like the target system didn't have enough space. This
usually means the floppy needs reformatting. "man fdformat" eg: "fdformat
/dev/fd0H1440" - frequently I find failures because a) the floppy drive is
old/dirty/disused and secondly the media has been laying around gathering
dust. Before you start, flip the drive door open and blow air into it to
dislodge dust. Manually inspect the media for crap inside the jacket - it
can damage the drive too.
Did I mention I hate floppy drives?
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Voytek Eymont wrote:
I'm tryying to make a boot floppy on 1.44 media, I get: 'no space'
is that space on floppy ? where am I going wrong ?
# mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost.
Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort:
cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.sR3853/vmlinuz': No space left on device
cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.sR3853/initrd.img': No space left on device
cat: write error: No space left on device
cat: write error: No space left on device
20+0 records in
20+0 records out
# df | grep /tmp
1064312 37060 973188 4% /tmp
# ls -al /tmp
total 2968
drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 4096 Dec 21 12:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Dec 21 12:13 ..
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Dec 21 12:14 .font-unix
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Dec 21 12:13 .ICE-unix
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Dec 19 23:36 lost+found
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 21 12:40 mc-root
-rw------- 1 root root 1474560 Dec 21 12:48 mkbootdisk.di3864
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 21 12:38 mkbootdisk.JY3692
-rw------- 1 root root 1474560 Dec 21 12:42 mkbootdisk.tO3735
-rw------- 1 root root 1024 Dec 19 23:52 .rnd
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