Re: [expert] making bootdisk on LS120 drive?

[Dan Swartzendruber]

At 06:10 PM 12/4/99 -0500, Hoyt wrote:
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>From: Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 5:26 PM
>Subject: Re: [expert] making bootdisk on LS120 drive?
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>> 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?
>> 
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>dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/<LS-120>

the top-level device?  e.g. /dev/hdb?  i tried that, and it loads it and
then crashes during the kernel uncompress (it bitches about "no more data"
or some such message).