On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 02:17:23PM -0500, David B. Teague wrote: Hi David, [..] You can create a boot-floppy by doing the following steps: 1. format a diskette, under hamm: fdromat slink: superformat /dev/fd0 (:mformat -s18 -t80 -h2 -S2 -M512 a:)
2. cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 /dev/fd0 (note this is, if You have installed Your Kernel (2.0.36) with kernel-package, so the actual kernel is under /boot, otherwise the kernel could be under /vmlinuz [ if You using the kernelpackage this is only a link to the /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36, if not I assume it is the kernel itself ] ) 3. rdev # this will "tell" You the correct boot-partition # e.g. (for outputof rdev) /dev/sda7 / 4. rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/sda7 # connect to the boot-partition see 3. 5. rdev -v /dev/fd0 -2 # extended vga-mode (50 lines) not really needed but fine :-) 6. rdev -R /dev/fd0 1 # bootpartition first read-only cu -- Peter Berlau [EMAIL PROTECTED]