Andrea, So if I do not have a USB or a cd writer on my machine then I am out of luck?
Nestor :-) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrea Righi Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] si_mkautoinstalldisk - ERROR Florez, Nestor wrote: > /usr/bin/si_mkautoinstalldisk --device /media/floppy --kernel > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5xen > ======================= WARNING ======================= > Using device: /media/floppy > This command will overwrite the data on that device!!! > ======================= WARNING ======================= > > Are you sure to continue? (y / N)? y > > Using kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5xen > Using initrd: /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/initrd.img > > Creating DOS filesystem in /media/floppy... > >> mkdosfs -I /media/floppy > mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005) > mkdosfs: unable to open /media/floppy > error: mkdosfs -I /media/floppy at /usr/bin/si_mkautoinstalldisk > line 233, <STDIN> line 1. Ehm.. you should use the device (/dev/...) and not the mountpoint... anyway, probably the space available in a floppy is not enough to contain the kernel+initrd.img. The command is typically used to create a bootable USB flash, or an external autoinstall disk to be used as boot media for SystemImager. -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
