Kathy Bilton wrote: > Thanks to those who responded to my q. WRT making a copy of my bootdisk. > > The suggestion I tried first namely to use YAST yast>system admin>kernel & > boot config>create boot disk produced this log message: Jan 9 19:22:58 > kernel: VFS: Can't find a minix or minix V2 > filesystem on dev 02:00. hah. thats strange?Before I advised on that I took a plain vanilla dos disk popped it in and told yast to make the book disk. It diddnt complain about mounting or type of existing filesystem. It just made the boot disk, I rebooted with the disk-got a lilo prompt-and the system booted! I usually try out what I recommend so Im a bit surprised it diddnt work. the command you used where much more elegant tho ;-) saylavie! rob > > > So I tried the commands: > > # dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/boot.disk bs=512 --> to put the floppy > image in a temp file > # dd if=/tmp/boot.disk of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync --> to put the image > on another diskette > > And when I tested the newly created disk when I went to boot Linux this > morning, it worked just fine. Linux Home page http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
