I believe yast uses minix only for making boot disks. It's a kernal option whether it's supported or not I think. -----Original Message----- From: dizzy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, January 10, 1999 11:18 PM Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Successfully created bootdisk, thanks. > > > >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 - 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
