I believe yast uses minix only for making boot disks.  It's a kernal option
whether it's supported or not I think.
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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.


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>Kathy Bilton wrote:
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>> Thanks to those who responded to my q. WRT making a copy of my bootdisk.
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>> The suggestion I tried first namely to use YAST yast>system admin>kernel
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>> 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.
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>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
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>> So I tried the commands:
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>> # 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
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>> And when I tested the newly created disk when I went to boot Linux this
>> morning, it worked just fine.
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>Linux Home page http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm
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