Ramon....exactly, the option '--device <devicefile>' seems to be bogus,
at least when specifying an ls-120. I was new to Linux about a year
ago, and don't have a unix background, so I have never used anything but
mkbootdisk. How would one use dd to create a boot floppy?
Alan
Ramon Gandia wrote:
>
> 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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