On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Ramon....ok, after checking out your URL I see where we're differing
> here. Let me re-state myself. A while back there was a discussion here
> (or in newbie, I'm not sure which) about mkbootdisk and the ls-120.
> Nobody came up with a way to use mkbootdisk to create a boot floppy on
> an ls-120 drive, either on a standard 1.44 meg floppy or on an ls-120
> disc. In fact Axalon indicated that support needed to be added to
> mkbootdisk for this very purpose. ;-)
mkbootdisk is a fairly new command.... I never done a
bootdisk this way until about a year ago, and then I found
that mkbootdisk is very strict about what you name your
kernel in /boot, and a few other things. mkbootdisk is
really just a script. It only writes to /dev/fd0 which
an LS-120 is definetely not, etc etc.
The man page on mkbootdisk is messed up too. RedHat offered
to have me write up a new man page for it, but about that
time I had a dispute with RedHat and decided to take
myself to Mandrake.
As I no longer have an LS-120, I better quit babbling too
much, other than to say that the linuxrouter people have
it 100% correct in there and their procedure will work.
You can then create an LS-120 cartridge "bootdisk". I
have no idea if you can create a bootdisk on a floppy
in the LS-120 device using mkbootdisk. I would tend to
use dd in this case...but....
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