Hello, First, If there is a better way, PLEASE let me know! I'm trying to move a working boot floppy to a partition to test it without having to keep uncompressing/compressing/writing-floppy each time. I'm trying to build a very small 1-floppy linux system, that I can use to boot, and access my ZIP drive and CDROM for backup and restore purposed. I am using the "zdisk" package, under which I have managed to get my Zip drive working with, using my debian 2.0.36 kernel, and imm.o from the "imm" package. (boots great!) ** My current problem is that I can't move this floppy based system to my hard drive for testing. I have a spare 17Mb partition that I am trying to set up this system on. I have copied the kernel to it, and ALL the directories and files from the floppy based system to the partition. I have added the following to lilo.conf: image=/spare/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 label=rescue read-only When I select "rescue" from lilo, the kernel is found, and starts booting OK. Everything goes well, then when some (?) processes are attempted to be started, I get messages stating that ID 1 (through 7) are respawning too quickly, and are being disabled for 5 minutes. I see NO log files at all created under this hda7 partition, so I can't tell what is wrong. I am hoping that someone out there either: 1) Knows enough about the zdisk system (linux system) configuration to tell me that I'll never succeed at this, or has a possible answer. 2) Knows of a better and/or simpler way to approach building a small linux system. For now, I thought the small system provided with "zdisk" would be the simplest way to getting a small linux system working (first) from a hard drive, and learning about ALL the pieces of the startup scripts/etc. Then I could start trying to get the pcmcia stuff, and my CDROM working. Any and all advice is appreciated! John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
